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Andrew McCalip demonstrates synthesis of LK99

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Re: Andrew McCalip demonstrates synthesis of LK99

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I don't see why people go crazy over this, the meissner effect in superconductors look different.

I don't understand what you're not seeing. Nobody is saying that the whole LK-99 sample is superconducting. Why would you expect the whole sample to float, instead of "partial floating" as we're seeing, if you have a material that's only partially superconducting?

Re: Andrew McCalip demonstrates synthesis of LK99

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How so?

The rock should float for a start.

Meissner Effect does not mean it has to float. It only floats if thats the easiest way to expulse the magnet field. Otherwise it aligns normally with the magnetic field, which is supposedly happening here.

Re: Andrew McCalip demonstrates synthesis of LK99

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

How so?

The rock should float for a start.

As it’s been theorized elsewhere, it may be that the production processes produce a material with only bits of the theorized superconductor in it, leading to the wiggling effect we see here as well as the Chinese replication video.
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