Buen día karnage, dónde vives? 🫂

A walk in the tropics is fine by me. Do it all the time. Rain is good

Morning 💫

*Really stupid question alert*

If this is real, and has so many potential commercial benefits, why did the people who discovered it tell everyone?

I think I found a village. Tomorrow, we will explore this gigantic mountain and its caves. This world map has a lot of beautiful mountains, I will name it "The Himalayas"

🚨 NOSTRFLASH 🚨

OK, there is a lot of news on various outlets about LK-99 and the ongoing race to validate/refute of 3 Koreans who claim to have created the world’s first room temperature superconductor.

I will give a quite info dump here.

1). WTF is this? Room temp superconductors (RTSC) are basically unobtainium. This is the stuff in the Avatar movie. It was calculated earlier this week that it would take an exascale machine (1x human is 20 petaflops) around 100 million years to brute force a 50:50 chance of discovering such a material. It’s a super hard problem.

2). Why do we care? Such a material can move electricity with zero resistance, this means no heat or waste from electronics. It means super dense chips, data centres without thermal limits, it means powerful enough magnets to hold proper fusion plasma, it means quantum computers with no thermal error, it means science instruments with no noise, zero loss transmission lines, vastly superior battery tech, proper ionic space engines.

That just some of the stuff we can predict today, there are no doubt many totally unforeseeable things too. It’s basically a completely new paradigm of human capabilities. It’s on par with humans discovering coal.

It means the 21st century will be unrecognisable compared to 20th century, as information and energy technologies are completely reset at a higher science foundation.

3). Is it real? Currently betting markets are 50:50 having been only 5-12% positive last week. The consensus is shifting towards “this is real” that’s not how these things usually go.

What do I know?

I have read the background and the science papers and spoken to a few people. I am the sort of person who reads patents as a hobby, have seen BS claims before. This looks real, has a new hypothesis that has been validated by world class simulation centre in Lawrence Bell Nation Labs, and various labs are now beginning to publish papers replicating physically what the Koreans claim.

My own theory is that the superconductor is a particular isotope of lead. Specifically Pb 207, only 22% of Lead is Pb-207 sI believe some enrichment may be required to achieve a pure RTSC. I expect various entities to race to construct such plants if this theory is confirmed. Why do I think this?

Because Lead-207 has unique nuclear spin properties among stable lead isotopes.

Isotopic properties.

Lead-204: Spin = 0

Lead-206: Spin = 0

Lead-207: Spin = 1/2

Lead-208: Spin = 0

Copper-63: Spin = 3/2

Copper-65: Spin = 3/2

Only 22.1% of Lead is 207.

My own theory is that RTSC is a macro phenomena of engineered quantum entanglement, where the spins of individual Pb-207 nuclei become entangled with each other. This could potentially influence the electron behavior on a macroscopic scale. This might aid in forming Cooper pairs, enabling superconductivity.

Any Questions?

🚨 NOSTRFLASH 🚨

OK, there is a lot of news on various outlets about LK-99 and the ongoing race to validate/refute of 3 Koreans who claim to have created the world’s first room temperature superconductor.

I will give a quite info dump here.

1). WTF is this? Room temp superconductors (RTSC) are basically unobtainium. This is the stuff in the Avatar movie. It was calculated earlier this week that it would take an exascale machine (1x human is 20 petaflops) around 100 million years to brute force a 50:50 chance of discovering such a material. It’s a super hard problem.

2). Why do we care? Such a material can move electricity with zero resistance, this means no heat or waste from electronics. It means super dense chips, data centres without thermal limits, it means powerful enough magnets to hold proper fusion plasma, it means quantum computers with no thermal error, it means science instruments with no noise, zero loss transmission lines, vastly superior battery tech, proper ionic space engines.

That just some of the stuff we can predict today, there are no doubt many totally unforeseeable things too. It’s basically a completely new paradigm of human capabilities. It’s on par with humans discovering coal.

It means the 21st century will be unrecognisable compared to 20th century, as information and energy technologies are completely reset at a higher science foundation.

3). Is it real? Currently betting markets are 50:50 having been only 5-12% positive last week. The consensus is shifting towards “this is real” that’s not how these things usually go.

What do I know?

I have read the background and the science papers and spoken to a few people. I am the sort of person who reads patents as a hobby, have seen BS claims before. This looks real, has a new hypothesis that has been validated by world class simulation centre in Lawrence Bell Nation Labs, and various labs are now beginning to publish papers replicating physically what the Koreans claim.

My own theory is that the superconductor is a particular isotope of lead. Specifically Pb 207, only 22% of Lead is Pb-207 sI believe some enrichment may be required to achieve a pure RTSC. I expect various entities to race to construct such plants if this theory is confirmed. Why do I think this?

Because Lead-207 has unique nuclear spin properties among stable lead isotopes.

Isotopic properties.

Lead-204: Spin = 0

Lead-206: Spin = 0

Lead-207: Spin = 1/2

Lead-208: Spin = 0

Copper-63: Spin = 3/2

Copper-65: Spin = 3/2

Only 22.1% of Lead is 207.

My own theory is that RTSC is a macro phenomena of engineered quantum entanglement, where the spins of individual Pb-207 nuclei become entangled with each other. This could potentially influence the electron behavior on a macroscopic scale. This might aid in forming Cooper pairs, enabling superconductivity.

Any Questions?

successfully? links?

This one is my fav! The star-forming region of the Tarantula Nebula, taken by the James Webb Space Telescope.

So bitcoin needs to be upgraded to be quantum cryptography resistant sooner than we thought?

Some excerpts from online articles about implications of LK-99 (room temperature, ambient pressure superconductor):

“If the 20th century was the century of semi-conductors, the 21st can become the century of the superconductor.” - MAZHAR ALI

Discovery of “impossible” superconductor promises 100x faster electronics

“Because the resistance of a superconductor is zero, if a current is applied to a superconducting loop, the current will persist forever unless the loop is broken. This phenomenon can be used in various applications to make large permanent magnets.”

“Room-temperature superconductors would enable ultra high-speed digital interconnects for next-generation computers and low-latency broadband wireless communications. They would also enable high-resolution imaging techniques and emerging sensors for biomedical and security applications, materials and structure analyses, and deep-space radio astrophysics.

Room-temperature superconductors would mean MRIs could become much less expensive to operate because they would not require liquid helium coolant, which is expensive and in short supply. Electrical power grids would be at least 20% more power efficient than today’s grids, resulting in billions of dollars saved per year” - Fast Company

- Much less expensive MRIs

- Longer distance, lower cost maglev trains

- Much faster electronics

- 300-400x faster computers (phones etc…)

- Potentially quantum computers in our pockets

“Here are some potential applications and impacts.

1. Power Transmission: Superconductors can carry electrical current without any loss due to resistance.  This would make power transmission extremely efficient, potentially revolutionizing our electrical grid and reducing energy waste.

2. Magnetic Levitation (Maglev) Trains: With room-temperature superconductors, the construction and operation of maglev trains would become much more practical and cost-effective.  These trains could travel at very high speeds with minimal energy usage.

3. Medical Technology: High-quality, more efficient MRI machines and other medical imaging devices could be developed since they rely on superconducting magnets.

4. Quantum Computing: Superconductors are already key to certain types of quantum computers (like those built by IBM and Google), but these currently have to be cooled to extremely low temperatures.  Room-temperature superconductors would make quantum computers more practical, potentially accelerating the development of this powerful new technology.

5. Energy Storage: Superconductors can be used to create high-capacity, efficient energy storage systems, known as superconducting magnetic energy storage (SMES) systems.  These could play a vital role in a renewable energy future.

6. Scientific Research: Many scientific instruments and experiments (for example, those in particle physics) could be made more efficient and easier to run with room-temperature superconductors.

Essentially, any machine, device, or process which is reliant upon electricity or is hampered by friction stands to benefit tremendously from both a functional and efficiency standpoint.

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“The LK-99 is a very useful material for the study of superconductivity puzzles at room temperature. All evidence and explanation lead that LK-99 is the first room-temperature and ambient-pressure superconductor. The LK-99 has many possibilities for various applications such as magnet, motor, cable, levitation train, power cable, qubit for a quantum computer, THz Antennas, etc. We believe that our new development will be a brand-new historical event that opens a new era for humankind”