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Flux Pinning in sample of LK-99?

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Re: Flux Pinning in sample of LK-99?

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Post by cpleppert »

lucubratory wrote: post #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 per…

I looked at the highest quality and the artifacting is just crazy here. There are no artifacts around the instrument at all, just on the supposedly levitating rock. The quality on this and the other video from the user looks like its very good so I don't really buy this.

The context here is rather strange as well, the same user uploaded another video that no one would believe actually demonstrated the meissner effect. Its a very small magnet on just a piece of paper. Did the user try again with this video?

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Post by klysm »

lucubratory wrote: post #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 per…

Those tiny “artifacts” look like they’re smaller fragments of particle stuck to the big one to me

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Post by totetsu »

semajian wrote: post #31

It's hard to imagine how this could be faked short of digital manipulation, and it seems implausible that it would be a known high TC superconductor because it would warm up too fast. Absent the former explantation, I'm starting to believe this is real. Also, it's not like all the author's are unknown hacks. Hyun Tak Kim has about 10k citations (Google scholar, which sometimes combines people who have the same name t…

The flake is a magnet, and a known type two liquid nitrogen cooled superconductor is inside the blocks at the bottom?

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Post by anonymousiam »

incrudible wrote: post #170
topynate wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No frost on the sample either. The only way I can think of to fake this in camera is to make the "sample" out of a strong magnet, and make the "magnet" a hollow shell concealing a chilled piece of YBCO!

You would be surprised what can be achieved with bit of nylon string and an appropriate camera setup. If this is a most groundbreaking discovery, why waste all that screen resolution on the backdrop?

I believe the backdrop is there to show ambient conditions.

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Post by 2-718-281-828 »

occam65 wrote: post #193
2-718-281-828 wrote: post #179

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Funny you mention this. I've decided just today to begin a full week of no Twitter or YouTube. To keep myself on top of my addictions, rather than fully succumbed to them. Props to you for deleting your account and going all in.

stay strong, bro, lots of twitter fan bois here
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