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		interstice on Feb 13, 2025 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Magnetic field sorting of superconducting graphite... Possibly, but a lot of real progress has been made by trying things that turn out to work and then working backwards to figure out how.

radioactivist on Feb 13, 2025 [–]

If this ever works/worked I would agree, but the linked paper is not at all convincing.

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