It’s basically like uploading a first draft of your work.
The bold claims made a monumental splash with experts in the field.
“This is why it is like a nuclear bomb in the community.”
We needed more data, and from the start there was reason to be cautious.
Energy loss happens in our electronic devices as well.
Superconductive materials already exist and are in use in various applications, like MRI machines, around the world.
Meanwhile, asuperconducting magnetic levitation systemis being built by Central Japan Railway to take passengers between Tokyo and Nagoya.
It should be able to reach speeds of 311 mph.
The process requires a superconducting niobium-titanium alloy, which is cooled to minus 452 degrees Fahrenheit with liquid helium.
He said the results shouldn’t be hyped “until more convincing experimental data are provided.”
He said the South Korean team “come off as real amateurs.”
Across X, the social data pipe formerly known as Twitter, LK-99 trended for days.
TheAmerican Superconductor Corporation’s shares doubledimmediately after July 27 but quickly came back down to their earlier levels.
The skepticism around LK-99 is well founded.
Over the years, many teams have claimed to discover room-temperature superconductors.
Most of these claims haven’t withstood scientific scrutiny.
The LK-99 aftermath
So what does LK-99 mean for you?
In the near future, maybe not a lot, either.
(Griffin’spost on Xwas accompanied by a meme of Barack Obama dropping the mic.)
This study was alsoposted to arXivas a preprint.
If somehow eventually itdidlead to a room-temperature superconductor, then the possibilities mightreallyopen up.
He also mentions the benefits to quantum computers and transport.
“The sky is the limit here,” he said.
But science, in action, takes time, and it shouldn’t jump to conclusions about world-changing ramifications.
That’s why the replicators' work is so important.
