Room Temperature Superconductors - This Changes EVERYTHING!
Room Temperature Superconductors - This Changes EVERYTHING!
JUST HAPPENED!!1!11
I’ll believe it when its not just youtube clickbait.
103It would be cool if these YouTubers could wait til the paper was peer reviewed and its results replicated before shooting their mouth off
71For people put off by the shitty title, the video is actually really good and comprehensive, and sets realistic expectations. It's a shame that these garbage clickbaity titles are a thing.
60Being a content creator these days is not easy! I forgive him for the clickbait.
16Agreed! If it lets people like this guy make videos like this, a little clickbait isn't so bad. I just wish they'd phrase titles slightly differently, like "THIS COULD CHANGE EVERYTHING" would still draw eyes without being a lie.
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I found the arxiv papers more interesting, but it's not a bad divulgation video.
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Not to be snobbish or anything, but at this juncture I wouldn't trust anyone who can't pronounce
arXiv(orSchriefferfor that matter) correctly to explain room temperature superconductivity to me. Hell I barely believe anyone with a materials/physics degree...38Doing that cute "X is chi" thing TeX does is kinda obvious but I have to tell you that it's probably you who's pronouncing Schrieffer wrong. Because Americans can't pronounce German names, not even their own.
Also just wait until your hear the takes economists will have. They're going to set the record for how many fields a single statement can be simultaneously wrong in (including, of course, their own).
13The point is there are established conventions among the practitioners on how these are pronounced, and not getting them right says something about the youtuber who may otherwise appear as an expert.
You might be right on how the name 'Schrieffer' should be pronounced in its original tongue, but I've heard multiple former students and colleagues of Bob Schrieffer pronounce it otherwise to conclude that theirs is probably how Schrieffer himself intended his name to be pronounced.
Yeah, can't wait to hear economists' take, or The Economist's..
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juncture
at this junction, you mean! wink wink
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JoeBrian1
We get one of those about once a year, and none of them have been replicated yet.
33Yes, see... it stops working when it leaves their lab.
10Then we should build a huge battery right there in their lab and let it store energy for the whole world.
4Did it even work in the lab? Replication is needed, otherwise they might have had something else happen. For that matter even if it really happened, if it can't be duplicated it changes nothing
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Will it turn out to be legit, or will it be this generation's cold fusion?
19I recommend looking at the summary on Wikipedia. See the "Response" and "Publication History" sections: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LK-99#Publication_history
Similar research has been falsified, the third author of this paper left the university months ago, some authors filed patents on the material years in advance, and the underlying mechanisms haven't been thoroughly explained.
However, they presented it in a way that is EXTREMELY straightforward to reproduce. There's even a live stream on Twitch of someone working on it: https://www.twitch.tv/andrewmccalip So I doubt they'd make a claim that large when it's so easy to disprove, and we'll know for sure in a matter of days, most likely.
38Related to what you’ve posted, the Wikipedia article on room temperature superconductors has a decent history on other claims, which have all turned out to be false or only usable in very specific circumstances: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room-temperature_superconductor
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If this gets peer reviewed and confirmed, what would that mean? What applications would this material have?
17Remote power generation becomes much more useful since you can eliminate transmission losses. Things like covering the Sahara with solar panels to sell energy to Europe become possible to think about.
6what I can think of
No resistance => faster tech, less temp in tech
Hovering things, especially for public transportation
Cheaper mri
6Also conserve helium, which would be huge.
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Everything. Instant prize too
2everything uses copper wire and want to reduce resistance can use superconductor.
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Yes, not so fast. Only if other teams can replicate LK-99 and they can confirm room temperature super conductivity will it be time to say that this changes something.
10This discovery has potential. At least it's not a totally exotic process to make this LK-99. I bet more researchers are going to jump on it and explore how it will work and where its limitations are.
The click-baityness is a little off-putting about this video. This doesn't solve everything, but it's possibly a big leap in the field of superconductors.
10The Wikipedia for LK-99 is fairly solid... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/LK-99
8260° F?!
If that's true, this would be a huge fucking deal. But most room temperature superconductors don't operate anywhere near what laymen would call room temperature.
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Call me when its 5 sigma.
7So actual hover boards soon?
5Superconducting skateboard looks like a reality.
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Turns out we were putting Lead into the wrong thing all along.
4But the guy who put lead into gasoline proved how it wasn't poisonous, even washed his bare hands in it! (then died from totally unrelated lead poisoning)
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This ended up being not a superconductor but instead an insulator.
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