Computer simulation. Perhaps they should wait till they actually display superconductivity in the material before they announce the accomplishment.
Exactl, simulation is not reality.
You’d rather they just be quiet about what they have learned? Why? This will put other researchers onto this promising area amplifying efforts to get to a physical sample.
All new drugs start off with such modeling.
This is the normal progression of research. Researchers no longer jump straight to the lab to tinker with physical materials. Why would you NOT take advantage of enormous computing power to model materials? This isn’t 1960 (or anytime before that).