If a new discovery published by South Korean physicists on a pre-print server is proven through replication, it could be one of the most important discoveries in applicable physics.

That's because the team believes they have discovered materials that act as "room-temperature, ambient pressure superconductors."

That's the physics term; the layman's term would be utopian, science-fiction, or meriting the milestone to mark the 4th technological revolution—something that would change the world forever.

Understandably, there is extreme skepticism surrounding the two papers, including from their own authors. Sukbae Lee, one of the authors, stated that another author, Professor Kwon, published their experiments on the pre-print server Arxiv without consulting the other authors, and before they had been properly written, leading to skeptics in the broader community calling some of the data "sloppy" and "fishy."

With that extraordinary caveat in place, let's take a look at their findings. The team identified a lead-based compound called LK-99 which is supposedly a superconductor.

When electricity moves through a normal conductor like copper wire, electrons bump into each other which has the effect of a net loss of energy and an increase in heat dispersion into the material; hence why our laptops heat up when we use them on full power.

Superconducting wires made of niobium-titanium or niobium-tin, avail the passage of elections freely, without any disruption, allowing them to channel massive amounts of energy.