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Re: Flux Pinning in sample of LK-99?

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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

I'm not sure how it works, but this was the first result:

> Patents are territorial and must be filed in each country where protection is sought.

[0] https://www.stopfakes.gov/article?id=Is-My-US-Patent-Good-in...

Re: Flux Pinning in sample of LK-99?

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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…

> 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.

Re: Flux Pinning in sample of LK-99?

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Flux pinning doesn’t mean it can withstand all forces it just means it will return to where it was

What about those Flux pinned maglev "trains" you see on YouTube?

What do you mean "what about?" them? Can you post a video of any of those that don't jiggle when poked?

Re: Flux Pinning in sample of LK-99?

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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…

Seriously? To me this looks like a chip of graphite glued to an invisible thread. The way the object moves is not what I would expect from magnetism (see second 10 for instance)

Re: Flux Pinning in sample of LK-99?

#56
post #24

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As revolutionary as this stuff is, it fits within our current understanding of the universe, or maybe a tiny bit outside (for now).

Intelligent interstellar aliens using unfathomable technology, secretly interacting with humans doesn’t.

What you’re asserting at this point is that all of science as we know it is wrong, and everything we’ve built was just incredible, one-in-a-trillion fortune that any of it worked at all.

It’s like looking at a plane or a helium balloon and deciding gravity is wrong.

Re: Flux Pinning in sample of LK-99?

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post #16

Can anyone explain if the specimen was found through rigorous research or just sheer luck? Because it is starting to seem like it's the latter.

A very large quantity of discoveries in science are a combination of "well, that's odd" and the "sheer luck" associated with the circumstances producing that statement.

(This isn't a commentary on the truthfulness of the superconductor claims.)

Re: Flux Pinning in sample of LK-99?

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post #16

Can anyone explain if the specimen was found through rigorous research or just sheer luck? Because it is starting to seem like it's the latter.

Does it matter? Even "rigorous" research depends on luck in many cases, because there are so many unknowns. Theory helps reduce the search space, but there are situations when a brute-force attack is the most efficient way to answer the all-important question: is this real?
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