Disclaimer: I’m not a materials scientist. I may update this over time as I collate more informationUpdated 2023-07-31 – Spacebattles table (11 online replication efforts) On 22 July 20…
If you're interested in seeing live progress, Andrew McCalip's Twitter is doing live updates on his progress, detailing every step and occasionally doing a Twitch stream. His last update is that furnaces are cooking, not sure when they will be done but here's hoping it doesn't turn out to be fake.
Nobody really knows, but everyone's skeptical it will work at all. There's been a lot of claims on scientists discovering the next best thing but they're almost always outed as fake. So yeah, I want to believe, but I doubt it.