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  • Yeah and it's not like you have to give up all the content on lemmygrad.world either, I'm thinking of instance hopping myself too just because of all the problems with outages and connection issues, which will help reduce the strain on their servers too

  • You realize you could just get a personal instance running and federate with whoever you want, or leave to a different instance federated with who you want? That's kind of the entire point of Lemmy's federation system. There are so many other instances besides Lemmy.world to choose from, you should really look into others

  • Heres my analysis of what all has actually happened from a similar post with this article yesterday

    From reading through the article and it's sources, here's what seems to be the case:

    • a simulation at Berkely National Labs with their supercomputing capabilities has verified that LK-99 theoretically has superconducting properties
    • Argonne National Labs also seems to be involved and doing stuff, but nothing official from them yet, besides maybe helping with simulation stuff
    • a Russian scientist is working on improving the synthesis process and has made some low purity samples that produce the Messnier effect, but higher purity than the original I think. It's all from Twitter (x) threads and a little hard to follow. Her handle is @iris_IGB
    • China National Lab (Shenyang) first principles analysis suggest gold and silver doping LK-99 will make superconductors as well. [Directly copied from article]
    • Under the guidance of Professor Chang Haixin, postdoctoral Wu Hao and doctoral student Yang Li of the School of Materials Science and Technology of Huazhong University of Science and Technology they have successfully verified and synthesized the LK-99 crystal. It can be magnetically levitated for the first time and this is shown on a bilibili video. They expect to realize the true sense of non-contact superconducting magnetic levitation. [Also Directly copied from article]

    Direct source for last 2 points and also more info in general

    https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2023/07/tracking-lk-99-superconductor-replication-efforts.html

    I would give LK-99 a 95 percent chance of either being a true rook temperature superconductor or directly leading to the discovery of a true rook temp superconductor in the next few years.

    A few caveats however: according to the simulation, the conductive pathways only forms when the copper bonds to a specific higher-energy spot in the crystal, so getting higher purities will likely need a fair amount of innovation on the production process. There are some other complications with the synthesis, so even if it is fully and properly confirmed with more papers and such it will still likely be a while before it can start to be used effectively.

  • Yeah in personally confident that it is either real or will directly lead to a room temp superconductor discover, particularly because of the simulation. Of course, can't fully call it until there is hard evidence and corroborating papers have been published, but I am still extremely optimistic.

  • Yep, imo it seems like this is just the first step of room temperature superconductors, there is LOTS of room for improvement, even if LK-99 itself isn't useful for anything real-world I think it at the very least is a jumping-off point for innovation on the concept, and finding more compounds that have similar properties

  • From reading through the article and it's sources, here's what seems to be the case:

    • a simulation at Berkely National Labs with their supercomputing capabilities has verified that LK-99 theoretically has superconducting properties
    • Argonne National Labs also seems to be involved and doing stuff, but nothing official from them yet, besides maybe helping with simulation stuff
    • a Russian scientist is working on improving the synthesis process and has made some low purity samples that produce the Messnier effect, but higher purity than the original I think. It's all from Twitter (x) threads and a little hard to follow. Her handle is @iris_IGB
    • China National Lab (Shenyang) first principles analysis suggest gold and silver doping LK-99 will make superconductors as well. [Directly copied from article]
    • Under the guidance of Professor Chang Haixin, postdoctoral Wu Hao and doctoral student Yang Li of the School of Materials Science and Technology of Huazhong University of Science and Technology they have successfully verified and synthesized the LK-99 crystal. It can be magnetically levitated for the first time and this is shown on a bilibili video. They expect to realize the true sense of non-contact superconducting magnetic levitation. [Also Directly copied from article]

    Direct source for last 2 points and also more info in general

    https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2023/07/tracking-lk-99-superconductor-replication-efforts.html

    I would say with 95 percent confidence that: it's real bois!

    A few caveats however: according to the simulation, the conductive pathways only forms when the copper bonds to a specific higher-energy spot in the crystal, so getting higher purities will likely need a fair amount of innovation on the production process. There are some other complications with the synthesis, so even if it is fully and properly confirmed with more papers and such it will still likely be a while before it can start to be used effectively.

  • They pulled it out, died the camera what kinda looked to be either a whitish powder or liquid b to the camera in a crucuble, then just ended stream after ricign the camera a thumbs up? Not sure what happened from there