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Re: Flux Pinning in sample of LK-99?

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Post by mcpackieh »

progrus wrote: post #24

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Even a breakaway civilization of ancient Atlaneans living under Antarctica makes more sense than aliens. Do yourself a favor and look up how far away other stars are, consider how many times astronomers have looked into space and not seen aliens, and then ask yourself why aliens would be so good at cloaking themselves in space but would ostensibly let themselves be seen on Earth itself.

Spoilers: it's not Atlanteans either, it's just a big tangle of hoaxes and self-delusion from people who want to believe.

Re: Flux Pinning in sample of LK-99?

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Post by pera »

p-o wrote: post #26
pera wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is an hoax and it's sad to see people like Sabine Hossenfelder falling for it so easily: - video recorder in a kitchen or living room - created by some random tiktok account - no credentials, no description - tagged "mysterious" It's hard to understand how anyone would believe this, specially after so many other fakes

Hoax is quite a strong word where there's been quite a few replication attempts with various degrees of success. Like others have said, we're not sure what this is, but it almost certainly isn't a hoax. As for this video, well, it's like all the other ones that came before it, we'll know more once we have more data/videos/replication attempts.

I meant that this video is a hoax. I don't hold any opinions regarding LK-99.

Re: Flux Pinning in sample of LK-99?

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Post by Enginerrrd »

dmitrybrant wrote: post #5
shawabawa3 wrote: post #3

This is basically proof of room temperature superconductivity correct? (Of course assuming it isn't a hoax)

Assuming everything in the video is real, the only remaining question is: what is the actual temperature of that sample? If all of this checks out, then it's a new era.

It looks convincing to my naive eyes, but how would you differentiate between this and diamagnetic levitation of something like pyrolitic graphite?

Re: Flux Pinning in sample of LK-99?

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Post by meibo »

Kiro wrote: post #53
kzrdude wrote: post #4

Nitter: https://nitter.net/Andercot/status/1687740396691185664

OT but why do I need to press "enable this playback" and reload the page to view the clip? What does it do?

Because they want to avoid sending your IP to Twitter if you aren't going to watch the video, and the way to do that without JS is to only render the video embed if you actually request it.

Re: Flux Pinning in sample of LK-99?

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Post by Jevon23 »

Zetice wrote: post #56
progrus wrote: 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 a…

>everything we’ve built was just incredible, one-in-a-trillion fortune that any of it worked at all.

That’s not how revision in science works.

We know that Newtonian mechanics was wrong and incomplete, but at the same time, it didn’t work by “luck” either.

Re: Flux Pinning in sample of LK-99?

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Post by Jevon23 »

mcpackieh wrote: post #61
progrus wrote: post #24

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Even a breakaway civilization of ancient Atlaneans living under Antarctica makes more sense than aliens. Do yourself a favor and look up how far away other stars are, consider how many times astronomers have looked into space and not seen aliens, and then ask yourself why aliens would be so good at cloaking themselves in space but would ostensibly let themselves be seen on Earth itself. Spoilers: it's not Atlanteans…

>Do yourself a favor and look up how far away other stars are, consider how many times astronomers have looked into space and not seen aliens

Exoplanets weren’t confirmed to exist until 1992. Just sayin’.

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