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redox99 • yesterday at 11:40 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

If we had really good understanding of physics, couldn't we find out how to make a room temperature superconductor (or prove it can't exist)?

Or is such understanding reliant in experimentation because there are "hidden constants" we can't figure out with math alone?


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teamonkey • today at 1:09 AM

We already do have a very good understanding of QCD, it’s a very successful model with 70 years of experimental results behind it. This proof may offer new insight but most likely will just be confirming what we already knew.

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