Room Temperature Superconductor Drama and Hope

Re:Room Temperature Superconductor Drama and Hope by lll-o-lll on Saturday July 29, 2023 @09:19PM (#36926701)

There is definitely a mix of evidence from the people side of the equation. Rank amateurism mixed with well credentialed researchers. Check out this vid from EEVBlog highlighting one of the worst “amateur hour” parts: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QHPFphlzwdQ (tldr is that the main website shows a vid waving a magnet in front of a copper disk coated in their new material. The copper plate moves around because of Lenz’s law! Nothing to do with superconducting)

Meanwhile, the very well credentialed HyunTak clearly believes it’s real, but he was parachuted in late in the development.

Personally, I think we will just have to wait the week to see if this is real.

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Re:Room Temperature Superconductor Drama and Hope by Accujack on Saturday July 29, 2023 @09:46PM (#36926902)

I kinda wonder if that particular vid was posted by YH Kwon... it would have been posted while he was still involved in the group.

It's very obviously not a U-235 disc by the color, unless the LK-99 film changes that somehow? Plus, if it's supposed to be pure U-235, why use that? Weapons grade enriched fissile uranium used in demonstration of properties of a thermally deposited film?

That video makes no sense at all.

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