On: LK-99: The live online race for a room-temperature superconductor

[dsign]

My two-cents from my armchair spaceship: I thought we had solved quantum mechanics! If this material is real, why can't somebody run a computer code and calculate its theoretical conductivity/resistance? Did I suffer all that childhood trauma with wave functions to now, in my forties, have to learn it was all smoke and mirrors?

[marcosdumay → dsign]

Oh, Quantum mechanics is completely characterized. We have complete theoretical modeling of chemistry and most electric phenomenon.

But you just try solving the equations our models create.

A computer can certainly simulate this material, on the CS theoretical sense, where all computers are the same and time and memory are both infinite.