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Attached: 1 image The first room-temperature ambient-pressure superconductor may have been developed. According to the authors, the LK-99 material can be prepared in about 34 hrs with extremely basic lab equipment (a mortar & pestle, basic vacuum, and furnace). These results could be replicated within days or weeks. Superconductivtiy would be a game changer in a lot of areas. 🧵 https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.12008

The first room-temperature ambient-pressure superconductor may have been developed.

According to the authors, the LK-99 material can be prepared in about 34 hrs with extremely basic lab equipment (a mortar & pestle, basic vacuum, and furnace). These results could be replicated within days or weeks.

Superconductivity would be a game changer in a lot of areas. 🧵

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  • KobaCumTribute [she/her]
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    1 year ago

    There are a bunch of public attempts at replicating it right now, including at least one person who's livestreaming the whole thing, and the first of those attempts should be complete within the next day or two. So in short order we'll know if it is true, out to a few weeks if the first attempts are rushed and flawed but later ones come back successful. If no one at all manages to replicate it within a few weeks, then either there's fraud, critical errors in the paper's tests, or if they actually do have a room temperature superconductor sample then the method they described is wrong and they stumbled upon it without understanding why or how it formed.

      • KobaCumTribute [she/her]
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        1 year ago

        I'll see if I can find it. I saw it last night but it was just a feed of the furnace cooking so I didn't watch more than a few seconds before closing it and moving on.

        This is what I saw linked on reddit, though I don't know anything about the person streaming and right now it looks like the chat is just people spamming ASCII art: https://www.twitch.tv/andrewmccalip