Dan Garisto
@dangaristo
Science journalist | Interested in the universe, people who study the universe, and punctuation norms that should be universal | He/him
Grimly apropos timing, with Eremets' passing this weekend.
Today a small opinion paper on the @arxiv: "Hydride superconductivity: here to stay" by people not directly involved in hydrides superconductivity. arxiv.org/abs/2411.10522
Science journalists are why most people are aware of Fermilab's woes, DUNE's budgetary issues, and the 'crisis' in physics around the lack of BSM. We also report on the government-mandated elimination of diversity initiatives.
Fermilab is a nonfunctional organization, DUNE is wildly over budget, we have an entire industry of BSM model builders churning out slop. And the only thing you read about in the science press is hand-wringing because somebody took down a pride flag.
Science advising during the second Trump term is off to a fast start with filled roles, but the policy remains up in the air. Co-reported with Jeff Tollefson; our story: nature.com/articles/d4158…
There's still caveats—only 1 logical qubit, no actual computation, absolute error rate per cycle is 7x per syndrome—but Google's error correction result really is very impressive, and it suggests a real path to fault tolerance. scientificamerican.com/article/google…
Dias is out at Rochester, finally. My reporting here: nature.com/articles/d4158…
NEW: Ranga Dias, a physics professor who claimed he had discovered a room-temperature superconductor, is out at the University of Rochester wsj.com/science/univer…