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#306549 2-Aug-2023 18:18
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Starting to look more like there is some truth to this with papers suggesting the theory holding water and a couple of videos coming out of china purporting to have replicated the material.



Effectively the story so far is some scientists in South Korea have created what they claim to be a room temperature/pressure super conductor from copper and lead. There is a science race on at the moment to prove/disprove their work which they release to ARXIV last week.

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  #3111131 2-Aug-2023 18:23
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It doesn't look like they're trying to scam anyone. That doesn't mean it's real - but if they truly believed it was real you could also understand why some of the irregularities noted may have occurred. Cautiously optimistic considering some of the simulation results now coming, but absolutely prepared to find out it's nothing after all.





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  #3111136 2-Aug-2023 18:26
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Have been watching the entertainment on Twitter, plenty of scams appearing already, although not from the authors.

Some interesting aspects to the publishing process noted on the wikipedia page looks (assuming it is right) that it got posted last week as someone got frustrated with the academic process.

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  #3111193 2-Aug-2023 19:04
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Well there seems to be some weird stuff around this discovery and no one has yet repeated it.
Behaviour is not completely superconductor like and it could just be diamagnetic.
Creators say the rather limp performance is just impurities according to below. 

 

LK99 -- A new room temperature superconductor?
Sabine Hossenfelder
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjzL9cS3VW8

 

Sabine above goes through it all.
Reminds me of some battery or even over unity fusion claims that turn out a bit different over time.

 

Maybe TAB will open a betting pool. 




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  #3111712 4-Aug-2023 09:39
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I saw in the last couple of days a few groups have provisionally said they have been able to synthesize the material. I think some in China have observed diamagnetism. Nothing published a this stage however.


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  #3111722 4-Aug-2023 10:23
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Aardvark gave this a tui yeah right review...


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