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Superconductivity fights back

Paper predicting demise of field is massaged after complaints from researchers.

Werner Marx and Andreas Barth have decided to revise their recently published paper on the future of high-temperature superconductivity research after complaints about their ominous conclusions. They stand by their data, they say, but add that some things could perhaps have been better phrased.

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Posted by Nicola Jones on October 10, 2006 06:28 PM |

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Every student knows that extrapolations are very dangerous.

Have they performed an analysis of the papers published on high-Tc superconductivity 1911-1986, or even pre-1911? What would their results indicate?

I think the philosophy behind this paper is lamentable, and would only be of use to some short sighted grant awarding body.

Posted by: Spud Gun | October 11, 2006 10:01 AM

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