Successful room temperature ambient-pressure magnetic levitation of LK-99

Post by XnoiVeX » Fri, Aug 04, 2023, 11:19 PM UTC

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Magnus Carlson said that if you tell him there’s a winning move on a chess board he could find it very quickly, because his focus becomes extremely narrow. I wonder if something similar is happening here. Since the scope was defined as LK-99, it becomes a narrow query instead of a broad one.

This is not just telling someone there's a winning move. It's telling them that X is a winning move and they just have to verify that X is indeed one. Many, many problems are such that it's difficult to find a solution but easy to verify one.

Post by [deleted] » Fri, Aug 04, 2023, 11:22 PM UTC

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This is a quite biased view. As a non-Chinese scientist, I can attest that there is intense pressure to publish as many papers as possible pretty much everywhere , and this leads to a problem of bad research across the world. China may be among the worst offenders in this respect, but the particular thing the OP is asking about doesn't strike me as a Chinese-specific thing at all. I see non-Chinese scientists rushing…

China publishes more science research with fabricated peer-review than everyone else put together https://qz.com/978037/china-publishes-more-science-research-... I respectfully submit that you may be providing an anecdotal experience. It’s so bad that China’s courts have called for the death penalty for scientific fraud. https://www.statnews.com/2017/06/23/china-death-penalty-rese... Goodness me.

Post by mnemotronic » Fri, Aug 04, 2023, 11:51 PM UTC

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On the following suppositions: 1: Superconductivity becomes widely confirmed 2: Reproducibility remains microscopic Imagine a game of rolling a collection of n dice (normal 6 sided), where the player wins if all N dice are 4 or higher (probability 1/2 for a single dice). Then the probability of a lucky roll is P = (½)ⁿ So the smaller the collection of dice the more likely a lucky roll becomes. Consider a hypothetical…

Consider the work of C. V. Boys. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._V._Boys Especially: "On the Production, Properties, and some suggested Uses of the Finest Threads." 1887 https://zenodo.org/record/1431517/files/article.pdf This is a very entertaining read, and highly recommended. He produced extremely fine threads of glass, quartz, etc. finer than the visible light diffraction limit. (Which he would use to construct…

Post by biofunsf » Sat, Aug 05, 2023, 12:02 AM UTC

happytiger wrote: post #901

Al-Khwarizmi wrote: post #798

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This is a quite biased view. As a non-Chinese scientist, I can attest that there is intense pressure to publish as many papers as possible pretty much everywhere , and this leads to a problem of bad research across the world. China may be among the worst offenders in this respect, but the particular thing the OP is asking about doesn't strike me as a Chinese-specific thing at all. I see non-Chinese scientists rushing…

China publishes more science research with fabricated peer-review than everyone else put together https://qz.com/978037/china-publishes-more-science-research-... I respectfully submit that you may be providing an anecdotal experience. It’s so bad that China’s courts have called for the death penalty for scientific fraud. https://www.statnews.com/2017/06/23/china-death-penalty-rese... Goodness me.

Post by hyperthesis » Sat, Aug 05, 2023, 1:25 AM UTC

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Things also tend to be invented at about the same time at different places. I wonder if there are other people who were this close to invent it but just couldn't get it right.

Last year I read The Double Helix and The Code Breaker within a few months of each other, and what really stood out to me is that while we celebrate the first person who discovers something, in reality there were several teams all racing to the finish line, and were sometimes days or only even hours behind in presenting their findings. Yet only one team gets the accolades and their names in textbooks, the others are…