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"The Breakthrough" (hearing this in the superconductor space) incidental discovery! the quartz tube broke, but then, the material that they recovered, had the property that they desired. amazing. we use quartz tubes too (and often break them) ๐
people keep asking me if we are directly trying to replicate this. the answer is no, so far. we have a furnace on order for other reasons but it's a lead time of months. BUT there is a group of Bay Area based experimenters that are interested that have some of the missing equipment. it would take someone getting passionate about doing the materials synthesis to drive this project. i *might* end up doing this (probably not, but maybe!) but so far my other duties are taking me elsewhere, and i am awaiting with excitement announcements from other teams around the world, esp those who specialize in this stuff!!
this seems really key https://t.co/oCBwvSAdk6 https://t.co/3KyRB1N2kO
So I think I can add @8teAPi, (speculating) but I think there may be an ambiguous translation. "Broken" may instead mean "cracked". In @8teAPi's later tweet, written almost in a literary fashion, he writes "cracked" and speculates that this could have introduced oxygen during the middle of a process step. To me this sounds plausible and would explain many things as a hypothesis