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Re: Flux Pinning in sample of LK-99?

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post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Hyun Tak Kim has about 10k citations (Google scholar, which sometimes combines people who have the same name though) and authored a paper in scientific reports which got L&K interested in collaborating with him. It appears he was a latecomer to the project, mostly borrowing his reputation to the trio of anonymous, non anglosphere native original authors.

Let's be less cynical. Nothing to do with borrowing reputation. The original authors have something. They don't have the expertise in condensed matter physics to really know what. They don't know how to report results and what results would be conclusive. Their work is simply not convincing, and if they were experts they would also not be convinced. That's why they brought in another collaborator who is an expert. Bu…

> Nothing to do with borrowing reputation.

It's a pretty common practice across science.

Re: Flux Pinning in sample of LK-99?

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post #145
post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> It's hard to imagine how this could be faked short of digital manipulation So, it's easy to imagine how this could be faked.

It can easily be faked, using a technique that would destroy the poster's career. It's one thing to not do something to the letter, and another to commit blatant fraud. Most career academics would not burn their career for the lulz.

I think it would be tough for a lay scientist to go from 0 media expertise to faking it this quickly.

Re: Flux Pinning in sample of LK-99?

#183
post #120

What I like most about this development is that, suddenly, folks with "CEO " or "Founder " in their Twitter bio look uncool, while folks with " " in their twitter bio are uber cool. Note to pedants: yes yes, the Venn diagram has an intersection.

People with in their bio have always been cooler

Now they're room temperature at ambient pressure.

Re: Flux Pinning in sample of LK-99?

#184
post #48

Is this material safe to handle? It feels like this thing soon will start appearing all over ebay and aliexpress

Would that be legal, considering they have a patent (pending) for it? Not denying it won't appear anyway just curious

Dude with something this important to humanity give everyone involved a couple million then let it run wild

Re: Flux Pinning in sample of LK-99?

#185
1. This video is originally from an anonymous Douyin account. There is no verification that it is associated with a real replication attempt, from traditional academia or citizen science. There is a previous video on the channel showing the partial levitation more common to LK-99, but it likewise has no particular evidence it's not just a flake of pyrolitic graphite. It is claimed to be associated with a specific person but no evidence is provided. There is no reputation to be lost if this is a fake.

2. In the video, while the effect dynamics look quite good for flux pinning, there is some really concerning artifacting on the alleged LK-99 piece while it bounces. Specifically, it looks like it may be attached to a taut horizontal string that has then been edited out, but they didn't successfully rotoscope over the parts very close to the alleged LK-99 piece during specific moments. This could just be a compression artifact, I have never seen one like this but apparently this is a capture of a capture by the time we can access it, and I don't use Douyin or Bilibili so I wouldn't have a lot of familiarity with what their compression artifacts look like.

Basically, I am pretty sceptical about this video in specific. I do think LK-99 is more likely than not at this point, but I also think it's more likely than not that this specific video is not real.

I also think it's extremely likely that as LK-99's profile raises and VFX editors get more familiar with what exactly a real video should look like, convincing fakes are going to be produced and go viral. The most common way this happens is that the VFX artist does it as an exercise and shows a few people without ill intent, but the video is then reposted by other people a few times until it reaches a wide audience who has no chance of knowing its origin. However, there are some scammers/influencers who are good with VFX and can fake a video themselves.

Basically, be a little bit careful about video, and things you should want are: the camera is moving around the piece and not static, the light changes during the video, the pieces themselves are moving, you see the pieces getting set up or finished later, and there's stuff moving all around the object to make strings less likely.

Re: Flux Pinning in sample of LK-99?

#186
An oddball question for the device physicists here:

Assume for now (subject to verification, of course!) that this material is a non-Cooper-pair superconductor.

Could one still build Josephson junctions -- and SQUIDs -- from this material?

If the answer is "yes", it's going to make a whole lot of magnetotelluric geophysicists very, VERY happy.

Re: Flux Pinning in sample of LK-99?

#188
post #40

It didn’t pin, it bounces, if it was flux pinning it would not bounce when you push it down.

Yeah, it's jumping back to a fixed position which isn't how I thought the Meissner effect worked. Since this seems to be posted by someone reputable though it's weird they missed that.

NileRed at 32:30.

https://youtu.be/RS7gyZJg5nc

Re: Flux Pinning in sample of LK-99?

#189
post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Back to annoy us with inane Twitterisms, I reckon.

It is kinda funny once you get used to it. When there is bad news they say “it’s so over” and good news “we’re so back”. The emotional rollercoaster on LK-99 is pretty intense and these phrases capture that for people. I get it at this point.

It's a relief valve for crowd mania. Humans really love to communicate in jokes, especially when those are in-jokes.

Re: Flux Pinning in sample of LK-99?

#190
post #40

It didn’t pin, it bounces, if it was flux pinning it would not bounce when you push it down.

Not true. NileRed shows it at 32:30 https://youtu.be/RS7gyZJg5nc That's how a levitating train levitates.

If no one has ever seen NileRed's video before, check out some of his popular videos on practical organic chemsitry.

Things like making hot sauce from latex gloves, or turning toilet paper into high proof alcohol.

He's a fantastic no-nonsense youtuber.

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