LK99: Team of Southeast University observed zero resistance below 110 K

Re:LK99: Team of Southeast University observed zero resistan... by obituary_latte on Wednesday August 02, 2023 @03:03PM (#36975492)

There are multiple mentions of "extraterrestrial super islands", is this a mistranslation of the Meissner effect? Great term nonetheless.

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Re:LK99: Team of Southeast University observed zero resistan... by rfoo on Wednesday August 02, 2023 @03:24PM (#36975826)

It's the mistranslation of room-temperature superconductivity.

"super islands" is likely translated from 超岛 which sounds the same as 超导 (superconductivity). I have no idea how 室温 (room-temperature) became extraterrestrial, must be extraordinarily bad speech to text model.

edit: could be 室温 (shi4wen1) -> shi4wai4 -> 室外(outdoors)/世外(out of this world) -> extraterrestrial

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Re:LK99: Team of Southeast University observed zero resistan... by wg0 on Wednesday August 02, 2023 @03:55PM (#36976364)

I wish I could learn CJK. Will take a lifetime to master.

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Re:LK99: Team of Southeast University observed zero resistan... by devindotcom on Wednesday August 02, 2023 @05:17PM (#36977631)

What a hilarious mistranslation. Somehow it is fitting though, as a totally unprecedented floating material.

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Re:LK99: Team of Southeast University observed zero resistan... by e63f67dd-065b on Wednesday August 02, 2023 @07:19PM (#36979239)

You're exactly right on the extraterrestrial part: the speech to text transcribed it as "最近我们这个有关世外超岛的话题非常的火热"

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Re:LK99: Team of Southeast University observed zero resistan... by jacquesm on Wednesday August 02, 2023 @03:16PM (#36975696)

Yes, I saw that, there are some more obvious translation errors.

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Re:LK99: Team of Southeast University observed zero resistan... by ansbalin on Wednesday August 02, 2023 @04:11PM (#36976646)

The extraterrestrial super island of stability

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Re:LK99: Team of Southeast University observed zero resistan... by jacquesm on Wednesday August 02, 2023 @04:45PM (#36977143)

Let's break one rule at the time, please. I don't think I'm quite ready for heavy elements that are long lived, either at room temperature or any other, and even less so if they turn out to be non-radioactive...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Island_of_stability

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