A dismissal coached by a theoretical physicist (Bernevig [0], the others appear to be students or postdocs) whose job it is to predict superconductors.
At least two reactions come to mind:
1) If his models could predict useful room temperature superconductors, it seems we would have found one already.
2) If his models don’t agree with LK-99 being a superconductor, and it ends up being one, he probably has a lot of revision to do.
I’m not an expert, but doesn’t it seem likely that finding a room temperature superconductor at this point would involve effects or combinations of effects that we don’t have a good theoretical framework for yet?
At least two reactions come to mind:
1) If his models could predict useful room temperature superconductors, it seems we would have found one already.
2) If his models don’t agree with LK-99 being a superconductor, and it ends up being one, he probably has a lot of revision to do.
I’m not an expert, but doesn’t it seem likely that finding a room temperature superconductor at this point would involve effects or combinations of effects that we don’t have a good theoretical framework for yet?
[0] https://phy.princeton.edu/people/bogdan-bernevig