LK-99: Phonon Bands, Localized Flat Band Magnetism, Models, & Chemical Analysis

Re:LK-99: Phonon Bands, Localized Flat Band Magnetism, Model... by Waterluvian on Tuesday August 08, 2023 @09:18PM (#37057633)

All it would take for me to begin playing much closer attention are a few credible labs saying, “we spent some time on this and we can reproduce it a little bit, sometimes. There’s something up but we’re not ready to throw the weight of our reputation behind it just yet.”

You’d think that with the current excitement and relative simplicity of the apparatus, labs all over would be putting in some weekend hours to muck about.

Consistency might be a problem for fabrication and commercialization.

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Re:LK-99: Phonon Bands, Localized Flat Band Magnetism, Model... by fooker on Wednesday August 09, 2023 @05:14AM (#37060308)

> labs all over would be putting in some weekend hours to muck about.

That's unfortunately not how science is incentivized.

The lab reproducing this would get exactly zero academic credit. Maybe a day of press fame, but that's it.

On the other hand, once/if this is proven to be real, there would be thousands of labs racing to improve it and cite each other's work.

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