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Couldn't this be explained by magnetism alone? How does it show superconductivity?
This man claims to have reproduced the same kind of effects with a simple ferromagnetic sample: https://nitter.net/VanGennepD/status/1688052003216261120
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> seems particularly challenging to synthesize My reading of the situation was that they have been making this stuff for quite a while (years!), but haven't had the funding or manufacturing expertise to start scaling up and properly improving the process. They are a tiny research lab. The suggestion seems to be that one newer (now former) member of the lab just thought F-this we need to publish, get it out there and…
Where did you get that "(years!)" from? Is it just a conclusion you came to or are those actual facts. If so, I would love to see a source or a direction to where to look for it.
It’s called LK-99 as it was discovered in 1999.
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> seems particularly challenging to synthesize My reading of the situation was that they have been making this stuff for quite a while (years!), but haven't had the funding or manufacturing expertise to start scaling up and properly improving the process. They are a tiny research lab. The suggestion seems to be that one newer (now former) member of the lab just thought F-this we need to publish, get it out there and…
Where did you get that "(years!)" from? Is it just a conclusion you came to or are those actual facts. If so, I would love to see a source or a direction to where to look for it.
The 99 in the name comes from the date the lab was formed, 1999. Some sources suggest that they have been studying this exact material since 1999, although I don't think that is confirmed.
I think it's safe to assume that they would have been making it for at least 1-2 years before the rejected Nature paper, although potentially significantly longer than that.
So they have been making it somewhere between 4 and 24 years...
Looking at how small the fragments are that other lambs are creating, I assume it's taken them years to get to the point that they can make larger lumps of the stuff that have any sort of uniform structure.
They seem to have been trying to perfect it before publishing.
In the morning I just check the odds on various betting markets now rather than going to look for actual replication news. If they haven't moved, there's no new news, I reckon, and it saves me having to look in any more detail
Instead of putting your money there, why not invest in some of the labs that are trying to reproduce the science?
Breakthroughs are exciting; hoping it's true! But I understand nothing of this field What's the general consensus here, real or not?
It is a discovery of an interesting semi conductor with strong diamagnetism. It will likely spur a lot of new solid state physics research.
HN is such a weird place. Every so often it adopts these communities of people obsessed with something, and lately it's whatever LK-99 is. I wish they'd just go make a subreddit.
In the morning I just check the odds on various betting markets now rather than going to look for actual replication news. If they haven't moved, there's no new news, I reckon, and it saves me having to look in any more detail
Betting on an unproven science about whether the science will be proven is arguably the pinnacle of "I have too much money" Instead of putting your money there, why not invest in some of the labs that are trying to reproduce the science?
HN is such a weird place. Every so often it adopts these communities of people obsessed with something, and lately it's whatever LK-99 is. I wish they'd just go make a subreddit.