Not only is this cool to watch and I'm crossing my fingers that their claims are legit, but it is always so cool to see those moments in science where the whole world comes together to work on something. Is this excitement and teamwork what it really means to be human?
Successful room temperature ambient-pressure magnetic levitation of LK-99
991–1000 of 1001 posts
Re: Successful room temperature ambient-pressure magnetic levitation of LK-99
#992Earlier quoted context omitted.
> lack of long-term career security can be challenging I don’t know, my fellow PhD students in EU have the same fears.
But it sounds like at least in China, there is some clear action they can do about it, so that’s the motivator. What would some PhD student in EU who is worried about job security be able to do about it constructively?
Same as in China, work a lot with the hope of getting papers to top journals.
Re: Successful room temperature ambient-pressure magnetic levitation of LK-99
#993Earlier quoted context omitted.
people will claim all kinds of crazy, implausible shit in patents. you would go insane trying to draw conclusions from the set of applications sent to patent offices as a whole, it would be impossible to differentiate what is legitimately worth paying attention to.
I hate that the patent system went from engineers patenting a working, proven idea to business a-holes patenting an "idea" then sitting on their butts waiting for an engineer somewhere to prove the idea so that they can raise their hand and say "I have the patent on that". The modern patent system is despicable.
There are actually provisions that are supposed to prevent that. It's called the enablement requirement. You cannot claim an invention that you don't know how to make. But in practice, it turns out to be easy to argue around that; there are so many non-experts involved in the process. So here we are.
Re: Successful room temperature ambient-pressure magnetic levitation of LK-99
#994Earlier quoted context omitted.
Or they are holding the details of their process close to their chest, in anticipation of a lucrative spin-off.
A breakthrough of this kind should be illegal to patent
The formula and atomic structure should not be patentable (like gene sequence), but a novel and non-obvious industrial process to fabricate such material could be patented. There may be many different such patents.
Re: Successful room temperature ambient-pressure magnetic levitation of LK-99
#995Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
According to Wikipedia, the material was invented in 1999.
The clue is in the name.
Re: Successful room temperature ambient-pressure magnetic levitation of LK-99
#996Cold fusion all over again. All the internet predictions of what this will bring are kinda cringey and pathetic
Not even close. Cold fusion was not something we thought was possible under our understanding of physics at the time (Muon-catalyzed fusion isn't what they thought CF was and there are all sorts of things that make it not really something that we expect to ever be particularly useful for power generation, etc., so not much purpose in talking about it) Meanwhile, all our known physics have no issue with an RTAPS exist…
I've seen some math that shows RTS are not possible.
Re: Successful room temperature ambient-pressure magnetic levitation of LK-99
#997So what the heck has happened with LK-99 really? (Disclaimer: I'm no physicist nor chemist, but I have co-written a report on three LK-99 papers [1] and am tracking the Twitter discussion as much as I can. I also got some help from knowledgable friends---much thanks for proof-reading.) It turned out that LK folks were not talking about some stupid shit. Specifically they were one of the last believers of long-forgott…
There is a tendency to call any scientific work that came out of anywhere in the former USSR as "Russian". Nikolay Bogolyubov is probably at least as "Ukrainian" as "Russian": he grew up and went to university in Kyiv, became a member of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR, and now has a physics institute named after him in Kyiv (and another in Moscow) -> https://www.encyclopedia.com/science/dictionaries-the…
It's not a "tendency", it's truth. All people you mention are Russians because they were living in USSR, speaking Russian language, worked in Russia and for them Ukraine was an administrative region.
Not to mention the fact that the country that denies Soviet legacy and achievement does not have moral right to attribute anything that has been done during the period to people and regime which despises their own past, legacy, sacrifices, relatives, and denies everything that has been done.
So ridiculous.
Re: Successful room temperature ambient-pressure magnetic levitation of LK-99
#998Earlier quoted context omitted.
There is a tendency to call any scientific work that came out of anywhere in the former USSR as "Russian". Nikolay Bogolyubov is probably at least as "Ukrainian" as "Russian": he grew up and went to university in Kyiv, became a member of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR, and now has a physics institute named after him in Kyiv (and another in Moscow) -> https://www.encyclopedia.com/science/dictionaries-the…
Indeed the original draft said USSR, but we are talking about Russian theories , not USSR scientists who are ethnically Ukrainian. We came to realize that we have so little information about the exact theory and our best knowledge suggests that the theory is, while may or may not have been pioneered by a Ukrainian scientist (see the updated post), currently rooted in Russia and not in the former USSR.
"Ethnic Ukrainian"? What is that? Someone from the village near Polish border?
Re: Successful room temperature ambient-pressure magnetic levitation of LK-99
#999Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sorry to piss on your sunny parade, but: >> 1) Fully decoding the cellular mechanism of cells allowing for the curing of any disease, repairing any genetic disorder. -- so you want to cure aging then- how many billions of people you think can a planet with a 6k km radius sustain ? You think Claus Schwabs of the world wont buy it out to keep it to themselves ? >> 2) Commercially viable fusion energy. Will change a lot…
>so you want to cure aging then- how many billions of people you think can a planet with a 6k km radius sustain ? Doesn't seem that it would cure high speed lead poisoning. People will continue killing each other just as well.
See my 3rd point, it applies to all inhumane activity. Normal people dont kill, mentally ill/unstable people kill. We are long past the evolutionary need for this shit.
Re: Successful room temperature ambient-pressure magnetic levitation of LK-99
#1000If we are able to make superconductor magnets, create a fusion reactor and as a same time have lossless transmissions of power. Would it make energy extremely cheap ? Can access to energy become free and delivered as a commodity by countries to attract businesses and taxpayers ? This would be mind blowing, with this and automation/robotisation of work, life as we know it today will seam very ancient for next century generations.
Also, are there other blocking points for inertial confinement fusion ? Would it also make solar power and wind farm pointless ?