Why this matters for Chinese materials science

54:17people who are pooh-poohing oh the sims are wrong. >> Mhm. >> Uh well, I guess not. >> Yeah, I guess not. I guess this thing is real, right? So that's one thing. This is hilarious and science beef is also funny. I think two this shows just how good China has gotten with fundamental material science research because they're having internal beef. >> Right. >> Right. Okay? >> Yeah. Yeah. >> There's institutions within China >> Yes. >> that are beefing with each other. >> Right. >> About like who came first. >> Right. >> It's not even China is saying we're first. >> Right. >> It's like who among us >> is first. >> is first, right? >> It's China Chinese science has made leaps and bounds in terms of where they were just 20 years ago compared to where

55:00they are now, right? >> Yep. >> Where 20 years ago this kind of competition was unheard of. >> Right. >> And now and now we're we're at this stage. >> It it is I this >> It's very impressive. >> If you're watching this on a clip, be sure to watch the full episode because the details are very juicy. The actual science is fascinating. Why it worked is fascinating. >> How much grief the reviewers gave them, right? This was not easy for these scientists to publish. >> And and this is not coming out of the South China Morning Post or you know an outlet that you can perceive to have geopolitical reason to frame it one way or another. Um And also the material science

55:40implications of this, as you brought up at the beginning, >> Yeah. >> from industrial application, etc. Obviously, there's a scaling issue. >> Yeah. >> Yada yada yada. >> Yeah, yeah, yeah. >> All this normal stuff we caveat. Regardless, um hugely, hugely impactful. Um and and I think sort of uh we'll see how the cuz we were we've This is now 6 7 months later >> Mhm. >> from our first coverage. >> Um we'll see how the story progresses,