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It takes a lot of cognitive dissonance to be pro USSR in the first place, so a little more shouldn't hurt.
USSR means something different to Russians than it does to Americans. To Americans it was the Enemy. To Russians it was the last time that Russia was truly important on the world stage and had some degree of prosperity.
There is a Checz lab also documenting the process https://twitter.com/CondMatfyz
I am totally confused, it is documented in the original south korean paper, why anyone would want to rely on such second hand unverified info when first hand info from the original inventors are freely available to everyone?
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Seems kind of stupid to do chemistry in your kitchen. What exactly is the rush here to come out with results right now ?!
> What exactly is the rush here to come out with results right now?! Well, the work is happening right now . You seem to want to make it sound like impatient kids being unreasonable or something, which is a ridiculous read. It is more a matter institutions becoming irrelevant because they literally can't keep up with their peers. Which brings me back to, > Seems kind of stupid to do chemistry in your kitchen. When th…
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It's just done differently, I don't know, it's hard to explain, but: A: [orders some chemicals] B: God damn I love America A: Hell of a thing, America C: greatest country in the world just reads so weirdly to me. Maybe it's partly that I can't imagine finding (or any other British/western European person finding) this a source of national pride to begin with, but even when it's something we do.. I just can't see non-…
While most of it is probably sincere, it's also important to keep in mind that some people do the "overly patriot American" as a joke.
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What would be an explanation for the partial levitation of the LK-99 sample shown in the video?
Could be normal diamagnetism, or even ferromagnetism. Very hard to say as they don't even give any field strengths in the video, it's just a Neodym magnet they hold near the sample. If I understand the video correctly they just orient the magnet by hand, so I would not even rule out a ferromagnetic effect. There can be multiple regions with different orientation in such a polycristalline material, which can produce a…
Plenty of things are magnetic dipoles or can be induced to become dipoles in the presence of a magnetic field. Ever played with iron filings and a magnet? Or a ferrofluid and a magnet?
[0] Assuming the dipole moment is constant.
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He’s replicating a cutting edge material science in his garage. People are celebrating the optimistic spirit of Americans. The indomitable will that this country encourages and the sense that anything is possible if you’re ambitious and smart enough to pull it off.
lmao (a) it's an industrial lab. (b) if there's any optimism to be commended, it's that of the South Korean researchers who worked on this on-off for ~20 years.
(B) The Koreans will rightly get their Nobel if this pans out. But what McCalip has done could never happen in a place like, say, Europe. The people there just don’t have the fortitude (those that do come here!) for this kind of thing. America is rich with ambition and creating the future. Other places had their time and are just fossilized remains now. But fun to tour, especially when the people there dress up like their glorious ancestors that made them famous did. It’s fun to look at the past sometimes (but obviously not live in it!).
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He’s replicating a cutting edge material science in his garage. People are celebrating the optimistic spirit of Americans. The indomitable will that this country encourages and the sense that anything is possible if you’re ambitious and smart enough to pull it off.
Garage? That’s an industrial lab
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I don’t think the USA is at the forefront of science, and I’m really disappointed to see discoveries like this originating from South Korea, China, and Russia before we saw results here. But even in light of that, I don’t think it’s very controversial to say that the USA is inarguably the greatest country on the planet. While it's true that the USA may not always be the first to every scientific discovery, what it is…
It’s simply because the US is the richest country on the planet[0]. A lot of money buys a lot of science. Many of those great discoveries are not made by Americans, if you look around at any of those American universities you’ll see people from all corners of the world. So yes, the US is quite good at research, but it’s not due to some intrinsic quality of the country any more than a billionaire’s ability to attract…
"Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses, and I'll fund all of their research projects."
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Garage? That’s an industrial lab
With a motorcycle parked in it. It’s a garage space with some lab equipment in it. This is pure modern Americana.
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Lots of bizarre pro-Soviet behaviour from her as well which feels somehow connected
She's _literally_ Russian, not ironically. So not so bizarre.