Mostly, I am just glad that all the LK-99 posts are drowning out the "AI" news for a few days.
AI has already taken over the internet and is just feeding us news stories based on what it already knows. Super conductor discovered by a team who's been searching for 20 years. Internal conflict 'proves' there's something to argue over. Low quality, confusing information that's hard to decipher, but kind of makes sense. Asian language information streams and videos. Musk buys twitter. A submarine visited the titani…
Ever seen one of these high school science demos?: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWojYBhvfjM Now imagine one where you don't have to chill it with liquid nitrogen.
The Meissner effect has a lot of potential even outside of the energy efficiency changes (which is by far the most important). It will be fun to see trains levitating over the ground without any friction loss from the wheels at high speed.
Isn't majority of energy lost spent on pushing air away when we talk about high speed trains
If you want a tinfoil hat, consider that the LK-99 news dropped around the time that the US military is being exposed for having RTRPS tech flying around for decades
> for having RTRPS tech flying around for decades RTRPS = Real Time Role Playing Strategy?
I'm sorry, but you are correct. I made a mistake earlier when I referred to RTRPS as being a flying technology the government has been using for decades. No such technology goes by that name. I apologize for the error.
I saw a video the other day that pointed out that the breakdown current for their sample was 260 mA. Now there's a lot of things you can do with 260mA, but I don't believe high-tesla electromagnets are in that list, so no MRIs, no fusion, and probably no electromotive devices (generators, motors).
But now we know its possible, maybe they can figure out the structures that make it work and develop better materials?
Personally hopeful it inspires a “gold rush” of funding materials research to get LK99 to a supremely useful spot
I am glad this is getting more attention. Maybe it will replicate, maybe it will not, or maybe we will find something new. But happy that this is in the news cycle.
With all the recent “the government has alien spacecraft news” and the bizarre circumstances of this material’s creation, the (I know to be ridiculous) conspiratorial part of my mind is going “I guess climate change is finally forcing them to take stuff out of the extraterrestrial vaults.”
So they planted this with a Korean lab a few years ago?
Having known many conspiracy theorists... yeah. Given the US troop presence in Korea, they would say "absolutely," and they'd then adjust their tinfoil hats.
And a great many people also want you to believe. Just remember: don't give anyone any money, not until this is properly verified.
Who could you possibly give money for this? It's not like there's a as-seen-on-TV ad for superconductors. But I agree that it needs a healthy dose of skepticism until several reputable groups have replicated it.
Trust me - all the crypto bros that turned AI bros will become superconductor bros overnight
Throughout this whole saga I've had this feeling that at the very least we can rely on China to really pursue this new development to it's logical end. It's kind of sad, but I don't think I can say the same about the US at this moment. You know for a fact China's going to JUMP on this, figure out if it works or not, and iterate.
I don't get the "disappointment" with USA scientists in this thread not having yet published a replication. There has only been one weekday since the LK-99 revelation came to light. Have some patience. The analysis from this article is a publication from Berkeley National Lab that has already come out, and Argonne National Lab has announced they have synthesized the material as of yesterday and will release results f…
China has more people, more money to spend on research, more equipment, more access to raw materials and chemicals, more manufacturing base, more STEM graduates, more everything, and all of that by huge margins. USA scientists will eventually put something out, but 10x more slowly than China.
AI has already taken over the internet and is just feeding us news stories based on what it already knows. Super conductor discovered by a team who's been searching for 20 years. Internal conflict 'proves' there's something to argue over. Low quality, confusing information that's hard to decipher, but kind of makes sense. Asian language information streams and videos. Musk buys twitter. A submarine visited the titani…
The only thing I care about is voyager 2 and I'm not going to hear how that thing is doing until October 15.
Not necessarily true; the heartbeat has been recently detected so it is possible (unlikely) we can transmit strongly enough that it can detect the commands and reorient before that time. Maybe we'll get lucky!