News Superconductor LK-99 Breakthrough Disproven? New Studies Refute Claims

[Admin]

Researchers in China and India claim the substance is not a superconductor at all. However, there are still plenty of other studies ongoing.

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[PlaneInTheSky]

 

[derekullo]

I guess we will have our answer if the physics professors at Virginia University all buy Ferraris and retire.

 

[umeng2002_2]

Jesus Tom, calm down with this LK-99 stuff.

 

[Sluggotg]

I'm having Flash Backs to all the "Cold Fusion" announcements back in the day.

 

[toffty]

And why people should wait for the scientific method to finish before jumping on the hype train.

Instead this site got flooded by article after article trying to lay hype rail for the train 🙄.

 

[edzieba]

And why people should wait for the scientific method to finish before jumping on the hype train.

That also applies equally to the "it's definitely not a superconductor" claims.

Even synthesis is proving to be more difficult than expected, so "This substance we made that may or may not be the substance in question has X properties" claims are not the definitives people take them as.


Unlike Fleischmann & Pons 'cold fusion' case, there are no new physics required for a room, temperature superconductor to be possible. No physical laws prohibit one from existing, nor indicate any barriers to one existing,

 

[thisisaname]

If the paper did not include clear instructions on how to create it then it was not much of a paper.

 

[evdjj3j]

Jesus Tom, calm down with this LK-99 stuff.

I wonder what they would have done for content the last week and a half if this story hadn't been a thing?

 

[peachpuff]

If the paper did not include clear instructions on how to create it then it was not much of a paper.

But it did, you have to bake the material for 4-24 hours... very sciencey instructions.

 

[CFT]

Before you are allowed to publish a 'discovery' in any journal, you yourself should be required by ehtical conduct to repeating your own discovery. This would logically eliminate any excuse for premature findings, and would cut down on the hype and bullpucky when you yourself are on the hook if results can not be reproduced. Measure twice, cut once, and save face. As it stands, some folks got a lot of attention they shouldn't have and wasted a lot of other people's time.

 

[thisisaname]

But it did, you have to bake the material for 4-24 hours... very sciencey instructions.

In a hot oven

 

[why_wolf]

Since this is coming out of a Korean University this history video about the Korean scientist, Hwang Woo Suk, who faked advanced cloning technology for years despite being supposedly co-sponsored by other scientist including a preeminent American, seems relevant. It's a two part video. Sure its great if true. But extraordinary claims, require extraordinary proof.

TL;DW Always verify the data.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ett_8wLJ87U&ab_channel=BobbyBroccoli

 

[Yourhuckleberry]

It was already busted. Why is this even on here. Is this really "hardware"? Or just trying to get the site clicks?