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Electronic Structure of LK-99

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Re: Electronic Structure of LK-99

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Post by fragmede »

yetihehe wrote: post #250
mptest wrote: post #62

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Speaks to a supreme confidence in the theory, surely? I'm a layman but imagine everyone is going to want to hear every wild idea these guys could think up if this works out. They might have been sitting on this for 20 years? Probably why I'm not, but If I were any vc person I'd be busting down their door trying to give them all my money

How would you find such researchers if they didn't have plausible real-world results yet? I have a theory for new high performance heat engine which I developed over 15 years already, but I don't think anyone would give me ANY money for making a prototype (which may not work in reality), so I have to somehow do it in the limited time after working two jobs (I had to earn enough to have a home with a proper garage). D…

Get involved with your local community of makers, get them intrigued by your idea and its potential, connect with people that will help you build it. Patent it, and then raise funds via the Internet to try and build it. Seek out local VCs. I know that's a lot to ask, on top of two jobs, but I didn't organize our economy.

Re: Electronic Structure of LK-99

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Post by DC-3 »

montecarl wrote: post #224
NotSuspicious wrote: post #72

One of the things that has most pissed me off about these papers is that VASP is proprietary and requires a license to use.

Some context on VASP from someone who worked with it for about 10 years. VASP is a very common projector augmented wave (PAW) planewave DFT program in the solid state physics/chemistry community. I used it for about 10 years when I was doing computational chemistry. It is distributed as a tarball of FORTRAN90 files, so in some sense all researchers that use it have access to the source code. The research group I was…

For anyone else totally clueless about chemistry: According to Wikipedia DFT in this context stands for 'Density-functional theory' and not 'Discrete Fourier Transform' as I assumed given the references to waves.

Re: Electronic Structure of LK-99

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Post by Xeamek »

hcks wrote: post #247
appplication wrote: post #20

This ongoing research saga pretty much the most excited I’ve been about anything since before Covid. It feels like the science equivalent of watching your favorite sports team on an epic rise towards winning a world championship. Even if this turns out to flop, I hope history remembers the original authors favorably. They really did find something that by all accounts could plausibly be a room temp superconductor. An…

This is sad man. You’re getting excited at manufactured hype on twitter

On the contrary.

Should he rather be excited about hype manufactured by entertainment or sport companies? Cause that's much more common.

Re: Electronic Structure of LK-99

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Post by throwaway69123 »

Accujack wrote: post #156
swalsh wrote: post #95

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It's so hard not to be crazy excited about the future. The past few months are proving to be an absolute breakout for the literal human race. So far we've seen: 1. in Dec 2022 We saw a fusion breakthrough seeing a net gain in energy 2. In March GPT-4 was released, which seems to be a seminal breakthrough in AI, and maybe of our first glimpse in what could become an AGI. 3. In May we find out apparently our government…

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Cringe

Re: Electronic Structure of LK-99

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Post by oneshtein »

zarzavat wrote: post #138
xtracto wrote: post #127

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What's up with that uh? I read about the swore statements during the depositions, and all the mainstream media news, but for some reason HN had radio silence. Is there something I missed that shows it's all shenanigans?

Pics or it didn’t happen. After years of claimed room temp superconductors people believed this one because it had a video of a floating rock. Aliens are an even more extraordinary claim, I’m going to need multiple close up videos before I even start to care.

You can find many nice pictures of aliens on StableDiffusion channel on Reddit. You can also ask for video.

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Post by robocat »

jeffbee wrote: post #16

The most interesting phenomenon revealed so far is that the room-temperature superconductor people and the generative-LLMs-are-God people draw on the same limited global pool of credulity, such that HN cannot be flooded with both ChatGPT worship and superconductor speculation at the same time.

The credulity exclusion principle (philosophistimicated)

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Post by aqme28 »

hcks wrote: post #247
appplication wrote: post #20

This ongoing research saga pretty much the most excited I’ve been about anything since before Covid. It feels like the science equivalent of watching your favorite sports team on an epic rise towards winning a world championship. Even if this turns out to flop, I hope history remembers the original authors favorably. They really did find something that by all accounts could plausibly be a room temp superconductor. An…

This is sad man. You’re getting excited at manufactured hype on twitter

What makes this hype "manufactured"? I've been very hyped as well ever since I read the arxiv.

Re: Electronic Structure of LK-99

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Post by aqme28 »

TuringTourist wrote: post #37
vesinisa wrote: post #26

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Just curious, how did you find Covid "exciting"? Making lots of money on the bear market?

Once in a lifetime events tend to be "Exciting" to people, watching history unfold so to speak. The excitement comes from the awareness of this fact, and the fact that it might never be seen again.

"May you live in interesting times."

Re: Electronic Structure of LK-99

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Post by TheSpiceIsLife »

TheSpiceIsLife wrote: post #220
redrobein wrote: post #29

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Any conductive material for the tube will have a similar effect. It isn't specific to copper. The moving magnet induces a current in the tube which in turn creates the magnetic field that interacts with the magnet.

Not any conductive material, obviously won’t work won’t work, nor magnetic steel / stainless steel alloys.

I meant: obviously iron won’t work.
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