Upcoming LK-99 paper will reportedly verify the superconductor
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Why are we supposed to believe this new paper? Realistically there’s nothing here. This is an announcement of an announcement.
All we can do is speculate. And I speculate that if there were a room temperature superconductor, it would have been proven in the first paper. That’s the point of a paper.
EDIT: actually it’s 1%, so you’d 100x your money: https://www.metaculus.com/questions/18177/room-temp-supercon...
The metaculus wager says replication within 15 months. Point #2 #3 #5 & #8(!) is that this stuff is really really hard to make. Point #6 is pretty noncommittal about how long till the recipe is published (in the context of 20 years of work).
It'd be damn nice if he were right though.
Its what the simulations suggest. It would explain why the replication attempts failed.
Its perhaps no world-saving bulk superconductor, but that still seems like a fascinating material for, say, microelectronics or high power electronics. For instance, what if foundries could align it and work it into a metal layer for microchips? Maybe they could take advantage of the directionality to make a gate out of it.
You have been misled by hypemen on twitter
No matter what, if it were bonefide it would be interesting.
But let's stop deceiving everyone into thinking everything using superconducting wires/cables will magically become room-temperature if LK-99 is real. They won't, you don't make such things from brittle ceramic.
There’s probably many meters of electrical traces in my iPhone’s logic board and ICs, most of which are presumably copper, but don’t need to be.
The whole outer case of my phone is made of ceramic so it doesn’t seem like it would be a problem.
Antennas in mobile phones, EM shielding for sensitive amplifiers, motherboard circuitry, etc, etc...
We need a metallic high temperature super conductor.
So, a 104K superconductor is well within the range of being practically useful.
But there are no applicable uses as of now outside a lab.
> ARC uses rare-earth barium copper oxide (REBCO) high-temperature superconductor magnets in place of copper wiring or conventional low-temperature superconductors. These magnets can be run at much higher field strengths, 23 T, roughly doubling the magnetic field on the plasma axis.