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- Hello guys and gals, I am Udahar.
- And today we're talking about a massive achievement for mankind.
- Now, possibly a massive achievement for mankind.
- Now, for those of you who don't know, there's something known as LK99.
- You might be hearing about it.
- It might be on the news.
- Your mom and dad might hit up and tell you, are things levitating?
- Do we have flying cars and trains and automobiles?
- Now, for anybody that's following this, LK99 is a potential room temperature superconductor.
- And of course, this is what it apparently looks like.
- You might be wondering this, this black rock onyx, whatever material.
- Yeah, this is actually the discussion of international academics, physicists all over the world right now.
- There's even some drama going on between PhDs about the validity of this superconductor.
- Now, this is a room temperature superconductor, which is a big deal.
- Now, I'm not a physicist or anything by that nature.
- But from what I do understand about superconductors is that typically the only ones we know of so far require some of the, I believe, the lowest temperatures possible to run.
- They're not meant to run in a room temperature setting.
- Obviously, we'll get to the applications later towards the end.
- So the first actual showcase of this was on the 22nd of July.
- The first room temperature, ambient pressure superconductor by Sukbae Lee, Jihoon Kim, Young Hwan Kwon.
- Now, these three individuals and there were a couple other people, too, that didn't get credited immediately in this posted a first time research of the first room temperature ambient pressure superconductor.
- For the first time in the world, we succeeded in synthesizing the room temperature superconductor around 400 Kelvin, 127 degrees Celsius.
- Americans, you can you can convert that on your own time.
- Working at an ambient pressure with a modified lead appetite structure, the superconductivity of LK99 is proved with the critical temperature, zero resistivity, critical current and critical magnetic field and the Meissner effect.
- Now, the Meissner effect is pretty much known for a lot of superconductors.
- It's one of the defining properties, really.
- And what the Meissner effect is, is basically the ability to repel magnetic fields.
- So we're going to look at a video of it.
- They've actually provided, you know, proper.
- They've actually provided some evidence, as they claim, abilities to recreate this science.
- And of course, the figure of what it looks like.
- So that little project, that little image right there, that's apparently LK99, this room temperature superconductor.
- So if you look closely into a situation over here, this is apparently a showcase as to a person's hand.
- This magnet, the superconductor pellet of of this of this LK99.
- And you can see part of it levitating in the air.
- Now, for it to be perfect, it would have to actually levitate entirely and stay pretty much in a fixed place as that magnet moved around.
- Now, of course, you might be wondering, well, what real world applications can you have for this?
- I guess I'll tantalize you and say maybe flying trains, but we'll get to a lot of it.
- Don't worry.
- So no joke.
- Obviously, the reality of this is, is that even back in the 50s, thinking about a room temperature superconductor would have really big technological importance simply because it could potentially solve the world's energy problems by,
- You know, I think working in like fusion applications provide faster computers, obviously.
- And of course, even increased battery technology to what I understand, like, you know, it actually would take a lot of modern day technologies we have now to the next generation.
- That's just some of the applications, a piece of technology, a discovery like this could lead to.
- To show you guys how a superconductor kind of works with the Meissner effect, you're about to see something levitate right here, a magnet levitate from a superconductor.
- So if you look at it real carefully, that's not some Hogwarts magic buckos, that shit levitating in the air.
- And obviously you need liquid nitrogen to cool situations like this down so you can actually operate at these levels.
- Now, it's even still kind of touching the magnet.
- It's not perfect, but that's an idea to show you how this works.
- Now, if you can make this run at room temperature without the requirements of ultra cooling technologies, then, yeah, that would be game changing.
- So because of how these scientists, these Korean scientists discovered such a magical like feat of human engineering and design, human research, really, there has been a lot of places cataloging every university's attempt at replicating this magical science.
- So here on forums.spacebattles.com, God, I miss the old Internet.
- No Reddit, no nothing.
- Literally, people on forum boards are talking about this.
- Compilation of all claims reports of replication efforts underway that this individual knows as.
- So you've got the Argonne National Laboratory in America with a reliability of a high claim.
- You've got the School of Physics from Nanjing University in China.
- And then, of course, you've got the Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Science.
- However, they've got a they've got a low reliability as compared to their Nanjing University counterparts.
- Now, some of these people have actually been progressing.
- They've been attempting this replication of LK-99, and there have actually been some successes, some failures.
- So I'm going to show you what a success kind of looks like over here.
- Now, this is allegedly the first replication of LK-99 outside of Korea.
- This is coming at us from Professor Haisheng Cheng.
- All right.
- From the Huazhong University of Science and Technology.
- OK, pardon my Chinese.
- I'm not perfect at it.
- So, of course, you can see that this is allegedly the LK-99 like over there, maybe like the footage is blurry, Muda bro.
- It is a very tiny speck that they've apparently managed to synthesize.
- So you can see how like this one flake is moving around through a magnet and the sample literally just keeps levitating.
- So they've shown how like two sides are apparently up there.
- This is like what they consider a partial success into this scenario.
- This is from like another Chinese lab over here, too.
- So, of course, they've got a magnet that they're putting underneath this microscope that's actually recording this sample.
- So here you can even see it like kind of levitate, stand up and move around.
- You might be like, whoa, Muda, this isn't really blowing my mind.
- The fact that this is allegedly a room temperature semiconductor and the potential technological applications we may have are insane.
- Now, of course, some of the technological applications of superconductivity can involve faster digital circuits, microwave filters, railgun, coil gun magnets, and most importantly, things such as electric motors,
- For instance, to such a technology.
- If it's discovered now, probably will take, in my experience and my understanding of the topic, at least a decade, if not two decades of actual engineering before it becomes applicable.
- But when it does become applicable, a lot of technologies we use nowadays on a daily are going to go through a severe, severe shift.
- And it's going to be a big deal.
- It's going to be massive when the world is entirely different in 2030, 2040, provided this technology is actually true.
- Even the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California, just in the last couple of days, actually made a paper on simulations that they had supporting what this LK99 is based on their situations.
- Now, of course, LK99, if you look at it real quickly, basically the chemical composition is this that I cannot read because I am not a chemist, I'm not a physicist.
- But to understand, it's basically to produce, to chemically synthesize LK99, you produce lanarkite from a one to one molar mixing of lead.
- I believe that's, is that lead monoxide?
- Yeah, lead monoxide.
- I think that's what it is, lead sulfate.
- And then you heat at 725 degrees Celsius, basically bake it for 24 hours.
- And effectively down the road, you will get LK99.
- And that's what a lot of universities right now are trying to recreate.
- If they can produce this, you know, science, if they can produce this material.
- Again, I'm telling you, if we figure this out now in the next 10 to 20 years, a lot of the technology we use will rapidly shift.
- Now, because of this, you've got other scientists who are putting this into the actual, you know, mix.
- You've got people from all over the world, not just the US. You've got Russian scientists over here to Russian catgirl scientists who've been working on superconductivity and trying to prove this in their own way.
- Everyone is on a race to prove if this is true.
- And one of the interesting parts about this is this isn't just some country making a claim and then hiding the information to themselves.
- If anything, a lot of the researchers behind this publish this information, whether to secure a seat on the next big Nobel Peace Prize, but also to push this information out there and say, hey, listen,
- We proved LK99 is real.
- You guys try to recreate this.
- So you've got some of the smartest minds in China, the United States, Korea, Russia, India, Canada, working basically together, if not on their own, to produce this new room temperature superconductor,
- Which again can change the world.
- All right.
- This is actually pretty big.
- This is like literally witnessing the birth of the transistor life.
- Now, don't get me wrong.
- There's a lot of people that have some questions about this.
- For instance, a couple of days ago, this is from the Condensed Matter Theory Center, which for those of you who don't know what this is, this is a University of Maryland Research Center for Condensed Matter Physics.
- OK, it's now time to do the unpleasant, deconstruct the non-experimental parts of the Korean room temp SC claims.
- This is relevant because a theoretical background SC discussion in these papers are so naive that if it were an undergraduate project at Maryland, I would give it an F. Ouch, man.
- God damn.
- First, strange sentences throughout both papers show that the authors know little to nothing about superconductivity.
- We emphasize that their ignorance about superconductivity theories do not necessarily invalidate their experimental findings, but it raises serious questions about their expertise.
- Well, so immediately they're trying to invalidate this LK99.
- They're just questioning the people that initially brought this research out.
- To discover a room temperature semiconductor, observing the emergence of a metallic phase through an insulator to metal transition IMT at temperatures higher than room temperature is crucial.
- We have no idea what this means.
- 3D superconductivity is not a metal insulator transition ever.
- So again, they constantly mention some references.
- Basically, it is questioning the individuals behind this, but not necessarily discounting what they had found, which I think is a little bit interesting in this situation, too.
- All right.
- It seems like every scientist wants LK99 to be real.
- But again, it has to be a matter of a looking at these findings, working at them, constantly like recreating what these Korean researchers have found, hopefully so that one person gets that breakthrough.
- And then, of course, years down the road, decades down the road, engineers can take these findings and apply them into realistic, usable pieces of technology that can better our everyday life.
- Now, no, no piece of scientific discovery is without some of that drama, ladies and gentlemen.
- For instance, one of the authors from the first paper, Youngwon Kwon, was actually removed from the second paper that ended up coming out because apparently they crashed a scientific conference.
- Days later, talked about the discovery.
- Maybe this was like people fighting again for that, you know, seat on the Nobel Peace Prize, that name basically out there, which makes your entire goddamn career in a way.
- And a lot of people just kind of wondered, maybe this isn't as real as people think.
- But again, with a lot of the information out there and universities trying it, clearly there is enough science here that universities and smarter minds will test this theory and test these experiments in order to prove if this is actually legitimate or not.
- Now, of course, for the final little bit on this, if this is true, this is a big deal for like human like discovery.
- Because LK99, if it's really a room temperature superconductor, which again, it's an electrical conductor with zero resistance.
- Again, that's what a superconductor is.
- If this can run at room temperature, you've got possible things like you can run like a power cable that is infinitely long, you know, from one side of the world to the other side of the world with, from what I understand,
- Zero loss in delivery.
- Or for instance, MRI machines, which are currently really, really bulky, because again, these things work in extreme environments.
- You may be able to have like portable MRI scanners, which, you know, people can use out on the fields or use in more applicable like or I guess you could say more tougher areas and then basically deliver medical applications in places you may never have given before.
- And those are just some of the many things.
- So ladies and gentlemen, if LK99 turns out to be true, which I'm sure we'll find this out in like the next couple of weeks when like a lot of these results are categorized and they're actually like, you know,
- If they are real, we'll know it's real.
- And if it is real, congratulations, you live through a big, massive breakthrough, something that we've been trying to achieve for like the last 60 years.
- OK, a real Oppenheimer moment, buckos.
- And if that happens in the next 10, 20 years, provided we don't nuke each other, the aliens don't come and vaporize us.
- We're going to have some cool, fun, new technology that we never thought of before.
- Levitating trains, better batteries.
- Hell, you know, better electric motors.
- The world is your oyster, ladies and gentlemen.
- This is me, Mudahar, and if you like what you saw, please like, comment and subscribe.
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- I am out.
