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I’ll be glad to play fetch but you first. Answer this hypothetical:

You have a resistor to measure. Electricity in, heat out. 100Watts in, 99 Watts of heat out. You verify the measurement for 6 continuous days.

Then someone hands you a black box resistor. You measure 100Watts electrical in, 150Watts heat out. You measure the volume, and if it were to have been filled with ANY Chemical (Like gasoline), it would burn out within 2 minutes, but you’re seeing the heat out for 20,000 minutes. You look for extra wires, external sources and find none. You invite 6 other colleagues to find the evidence of fraud, to no avail.

What is the Energy Density of the first resistor compared to the second one? Come on, Mr. Advanced Science Degree. Even I can do this calculation.

The energy density is zero, because no independent scientist was able to confirm that the resistor was isolated from external sources of power. The fact that this was deliberately done by keeping a thorough examination of the apparatus off limits means we are free -- and indeed compelled -- to impute fraud to it's "inventor."

Now go look up what I told you to look up, and don't come back until you can tell me what existing theory of physics was shaken to its knees by the discovery of High Temperature Superconductivity.

Oh...

Wait...

I'll save you the search, because no physical laws were broken by the discovery. Physicists and materials scientists had been looking for liquid nitrogen and higher temperature superconductors for years, something they would not have been wasting their time with if there were a theoretical basis that said it was impossible to do.