@@sociolocomtsacWould you mind repeating everything you are ~feeling~ through your keyboard again? Your words did not exactly resonate. In 2023 when *humans have* super massive data centers available to slave away on all the Math 👾 Problems™️, even a boring old ✌️ bit program can sort and rank whatever hypothesis is best.
@@andrewfarrar741 I'm sorry, your emojis don't quite resonate. Please write in English and not unintelligible child-talk. I can't help that you don't understand full sentences.
@@sociolocomtsac I can fix the part that you had to come back and edit. As in, I can fix it inside your *brain emoji* so you don't make mistakes. However, you have to decide that you want me to fix it. Think of me maybe like a brain unlocker. Emoji are optional in My Quantum™️ and everyone does their best when they communicate. I know there is a super awesome version of the words you initially shared that is lurking in your head. Kindly, would you share it here with the universe?
When I was a kid there was a guy who would get on busses and checked everyone's ticket. He was always really friendly and never had to give anyone a fine because he was so likable that even people who were attempting to ride without buying a ticket would pay the fare. He was a super conductor.
Well then. I expected a flat out "no superconductor afterall" but the results we have suggest that there may in fact be SOMETHING fishy going on even if it's not superconductivity. This suddenly got quite exciting.
IDK, I guess exciting from a pure theoretical science standpoint, but I don't think there's anywhere near the practical applications for room temperature superconductivity. That's why it got so much hype in the first place. Did you have some application for "weird magnetic stuff" that's nearly as exciting?
@@squirlmy If there's really "weird magnetic stuff" it almost certainly means new science. And that could be anything, maybe this weird stuff actually leads to a full understanding of high temperature superconductivity or maybe it leads to something else. But if there's unexpected results, it's always good news for science.
Re LK-99 superconductor, I have followed a bit on this, and one takeaway is that the material is NOT as simple as may seem to create. In short, it is a crystal-like structure that has many engineering steps to precisely form; you can't just mix something together and voila. Even if legit, we can expect many failures in reproduction since this is all very niche knowledge particularly engineering wise.
@@SolarScionYep. She does a decent job of communicating to scientists stuff which is outside their field. Lots of popular science media fails pretty hard at that.
@@travcollier i am an engineer, there are some research aspects in my work, but i would never be informed about things i care very much about without this channel.
for all you know she is lying. you must fact check her and become a scientist!!!!! why would you watch this if you werent a scientist? go farm a potato you crazy lovable bag.
Thank you for the no nonsense information on LK-99. My brother is a PhD candidate in condensed matter physics and he mentioned how crazy all the hype around it has been. Im a meteorologist by trade so some aspects are not clear to me given the complex technical nature. But Ive had great fun learning about super conductor types and their potential applications.
@@mathoph26 all the observed behaviour can be explained by ferromagnetism, no need for diamagnetism. Still very interesting though, copper and lead showing ferromagnetic properties...
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@@vitalyl1327 Ferromagnetism by definition will cause the material to rotate and then be attracted to the magnet. No ferromagnetic material can levitate, only diamagnetic materials.
@@Zeuskabob1 wrong. See arXiv:2308.03110 - it was demonstrated how an insulator with ferromagnetic inclusions can half-levitate, reproducing all of the behaviors we've seen from LK-99 original and replication efforts so far.
Thank you for the LK-99 update! One difference from “cold fusion”: While this early set of mixed-bag, leaning-towards-negative set of outcomes in no way constitutes proof of the reality of the effect, it is nonetheless at least two or three orders of magnitude _more_ positive than the reproduction outcomes a month after “cold fusion” was first announced. Why such a high ratio? Because the one-month-later results for cold infusion were uniformly zero. In sharp contrast, at least a few labs appear to be having some difficulty _disproving_ the idea. That’s unexpected, and not at all like the stark futility I so vividly remember in the cold fusion aftermath. (I'm _old._ :) The other striking difference is they have a theory for this, one with solid correlations and some indirect verification from the well-established existence of room-temperature superconductivity in high-pressure physics. Another point that is conspicuously different from cold fusion is that if some group can prove they have achieved the same crystal structure at room temperature that has been proven to provide superconductivity in high-pressure physics, they have a genuinely solid theoretical leg on which to stand. That never happened with cold fusion. You are now my go-to place for updates on this fascinating issue!
Another difference with cold fusion is that room-temperature, room-pressure superconductivity is an extension of what we have already found (we have found atmospheric pressure superconductivity at low temperatures, and high-pressure superconductivity at _almost_ room temperatures, like around the freezing point of water), whereas cold fusion basically came completely out of left field. It's not a reach to say that a room-temperature, room-pressure superconductor is a matter of time, as opposed to a matter of possibility.
@@theendoftheline Most groups who have got successful levitating samples did not check for superconductivity, because that's actually very hard to do properly, and potentially impossible if the sample is too small. It's an overreach to say "Results are universally non-superconductive" given that.
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im just a barista with astrophysicist friends but they totally got me hooked on your channel. I barely know whats going on at the start of the video but i leave the video with even more questions and i absolutely love it! 😂 Thank you for making them!
LK-99 may not be the one, however the physics behind do point to some interesting superconductor behavior if the copper atoms are arranged correctly similar to what they reported and therefore there is a very real possibly a whole new class of latice contraction superconductors which could lead to a real break though within a few decades or even years considering the high motivation to be the first one to get a working room temperature superconductor. I think those scientists who were working on synthesizing LK-99 ran similar simulations and had been attempting to replicate them in a successful experiment.
Re: LK99, my guess is that the material is so fragile after replacing the lead with copper that it makes confirmation a dice roll. And if the sought effects only occur along one dimension, it would be maddening.
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I call it the youtube voice. As a channel gets more popular the speaker tends to turn into a gameshow host. Higher pitched and more excited. I first noticed this watching Chrisfix and some LPers early vids and then the most recent.
Please make a whole video on the milleniumTNG topic, how incredibly fascinating yet complicated. I would love to understand more of how it works and what it is doing. Amazing stuff
@@downstream0114 Right?! I myself don't see how they can't/won't be. I mean, it's an entirely different, and in my opinion more sensible/rational/promising, approach to superconduction - and one with its own entire domain of individual, specific opportunities... That's just awesome - a whole new world.
I'm guessing that most of the problems around LK-99 inconsistencies have to do with inconsistent manufacturing processes. If I remember right, the Berkeley paper indicated that it would have to be synthesized as very small crystal structures, and that the effects would vary according to how much lead is replaced with copper and at which positions the leads are replaced.
@@billballinger5622 ferromagnetic materials that aren't pre-magnetized are uniformly attracted to standard magnets. No way. And no one has suggested ferromagnetism is involved, everyone is saying possible diamagnetism instead.
Lk99 seems to get more interesting the more studies that come out. I thought it would be disproven quickly, but the uncertainty maybe means there's more to this substance than we thought.
Very nice, again. Thank you. The bio-plastic is my fav, that would be a real gamechanger. We could use MUCH MORE plastic than ever before, and no problem.
Your usual tremendous intellect applied to topical science news, lovingly shared with us - alongside your fun 'tongue-in-cheek' style. I love the way you also refer back to earlier work & breakthroughs. 👍
Western blots just got so much easier. Eliminating pipettes eliminates one of the primary tension factors in molecular biology labs. One less thing to put one's name on with masking tape. Next step is to master food replicators so that we can eliminate similar problems in the break room fridge.
Star Trek is fantasy and allegory but this tech can potentially be used for cooling purposes, and I think may already be. There's a cooler of a chip now that probably works like the ultrasound pad in the vid. It can vibrate individual cells (or all at once) which accelerates air molecules upwards at high speed. A lid with horizontal fins sits on top of the cooler chip so air shoots out the sides. This lid also absorbs and radiates heat away. 2.5mm high instead of 4mm for the current heatpipe and fan combo, and using much less copper and plastic.
It was my first time watching your news, and I can't stop myself from telling you that I am immensely impressed! Great job with adding some humour and presenting science in a way a leyman understands. Kudos!
Thank you for doing this. It is much needed in this day and age. For some reason people think that only Hollywood studios can show us stuff that isn't real.
@@kindlin It's a crumb of asphalt from my driveway, suspended over the magnet with a tiny bit of fishing line. (the fishing line is airbrushed out, of course)
@@DmitryBrant Ez e nuf As I have no video editing skills, I didn't think about how easy it must be nowadays to just... click away some unwanted part of the photo, or, I guess, even videos now.
Honestly, your science recaps have been an incredible tool to use while I have been going through all the fundamentals of different branches of physics and mathematics!! I find it improves my knowledge transfer through extrapolating between the different breadths!
LK99 is a semiconductor, but it turns into a superconductor when current is applied due to Cooper pair effect. The lab's patent describes the mechanism and results
I hope that MillenniumTNG will be followed by MillenniumDS9, and MillenniumVOY. (Also we should call its predecessor MillenniumTOS - The Original Simulation ;))
Thank you so much for you and all the team for all those efforts in each video, choosing subjects, preparation, explaining, and direction! 🎉 ❤ Plz more updates about lk99 and update about all other things 🙏
Although LK-99 seems to not be an ambient temperature superconductor, at least it seems to have a strong diamagnetic effect, which is also very useful.
The possible explanation of LK-99's behaviour is that *parts* of produced material have superconductivity. Then the question, can be manufacturing process be refined so it becomes completely superconductive.
I was glad to see that the paper on conflicts described near @14:34 actually referenced an article by L. F. Richardson. He was the author of "Statistics of Deadly Quarrels," a book on a statistical analysis of war and its causes.
Defects in the crystalline structure likely would make it difficult to replicate superconductivity in LK-99. Pressure may also be a factor, and in the case of having a decent size chunk of the material, the interior pressure could be much higher than the ambient pressure.
@@kamikeserpentail3778 Actually, defects in a material can alter the stress and strain in a material, and thus make some internal regions high pressure. It's possible that a high pressure superconductor could work at low ambient pressures if it had large enough defects which were connected. Imagine a cubic lattice with a defect increasing the lattice spacing in a given region. The external region wants to persist with its smaller spacing, and therefore tries to compress the defect, making it high pressure. So defects can actually be quite amazing.
@@Laff700 this material is what's called a high entropy alloy. They are created at high temperatures and pressures. There will be considerable variation in the manufacture of said material as one can see, it is a complex material. Small defects have significant effects in regular semiconductors, so it is expected small differences will produce substantial differences in properties in something as exotic as a room temperature superconductor. As HEAs are recently developed materials, it's unsurprising that different labs will have varied success in reproducing the material. More research must be done.
By the way, I think conflict between some people is inevitable. Well that's the way it is with some Irish people, when you put two of them in a room together. Your bound to get an argument.😂
I'm just sitting here imagining my RTX 4090 using superconductors for traces and I would never be afraid it would melt (or need any cooling at all) damn what a dream. (yes I know the impacts would be so much greater than this) xD
Thanks for keeping an open mind about LK-99. It's clear at this stage that results are patchy. It's most likely not a superconductor, but we can't as scientists just give up because it's too good to be true. Do proper tests, wait for real data and ensure we are analysing properly. It's too important to go fast.
"This is the most fun we've had in physics since cold fusion." There is something really appealing about the prospect of making exotic materials in your kitchen. Who can resist? (That was a pun.)
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I'm fascinated that copper was able to do what it did to a lead compound. If all we get is a novel semiconductor, it drives our understanding forward. If the 'levitation' seen could be turned on and off electronically, might be a new kind of actuator or very tiny cooling fans...
This is a game-changer . No doubt about it. do you think the implications could expand our knowledge also about the second law of thermodynamics and the concept of entropy. as I m thinking about the meissner effect loop of the electromagnetic field, see as perpetual motion
@@daysofradiation Probably not. If you do want some second law disproving hopium though, there's this thing called relativistic heat conduction which takes the finite speed of light/second sound into account and allows you to model heat flow more realistically. It allows for fun things like thermal shockwaves and resonance. It also allows the formula for local entropy generation to go _negative_(I.E. heat flowing from cold to hot). It's currently thought that this doesn't violate the second law of thermodynamics because locally the system might not be in equilibrium and therefore our usual notions of thermodynamics and temperature don't really apply. Recently stumbled upon it myself and it seems pretty fun. It seems like in order to properly model it, you have to use coupled equations regarding the evolution of the heat flow vector and temperature.
locally the violations are possibile..and we can assume this as a statement. We also all undestand that the most important concept of superconductivity is what is the rule of the entropy . Let's see Pine's effects in so called exotic materials , that is the same approach of Maxwell's demon concept@@Laff700
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If I recall, the original Korean paper featured graphs that showed zero resistance. My gut feeling is that the microscopic structure of what they made is a lot harder to replicate than first thought. If it’s real.
I mean yes, it showed a line which is zero with the naked eye. But the scale was not usefull at all. At that scale, even normal wires would look like they have zero resistance
I understand that the false positive rate in the earthquake detection method is high, but the events themselves are also quite rare. Something like 1 in 16 is a true earthquake precursor, but those 16 events are spread out over a century or so. If that's the case this can still be a quite useful method.
Most definitely, an occasional false alarm warning "earthquake drill" is far better than no alarm at all. This technology could save tens of thousands of lives in the case of a mega quake event.
Seeing spacebattles as a source was pretty wild since that's where I read fanfiction, lol. But the site absolutely has the kind of people who would compile this kind of info.
Thanks for making this type of content Sabine! Always appreciate insights on current events from highly qualified people like you. Loved the jokes by the way, lol. 😂
nice to see you having some fun with these videos. it's not over the top and intrusive like in some other educational videos, but it's enough to make it feel more light-hearted.
Oh no, bringing internet to where it can't be brought normally or where local ISPs provide terrible deals because there are no alternatives, how malicious!
IMO I find the results for LK99 pretty cool, sure it doesn't seem to be the room temperature superconductor it was sold as. But I really wasn't expecting that to be the case anyway, however it seems like there may actually be something here. Maybe something which can be researched into and one day lead to an actual roomtemp superconductor.
It was very obviously not what it was advertised as ignoring the reputation of South Korean Labs it was a shity video that showed basically none of the properties of a superconductor. In this age of modern technology if we don't have a high-speed camera taking footage of the superconductor demonstrating every single easy to demonstrate aspect of superconductors we shouldn't believe it at all because I mean come on now I mean that video was obviously garbage
My guess is that those scientists did run similar simulations which pointed to a room temperature superconductor and that was why they were trying to create LK-99. They weren't doing bad science or trying to mislead anyone until one of them jumped the gun on an interesting sample that may have been expressing superconductivity or at least some significant diamagnetism far greater than pyrolytic graphite.
Hi Sabine, thank you for all your content. Could you make a video about the risks of Nuclear Thermal Propulsion Rockets which Nasa is planning to launch by as early as 2025?
@@NeovanGoth That's a very interesting idea. People like Putin, Trump, De Santis etc. are individual people, yes, but they merely emerged from a pool of similarly-minded people and coincidence gave them a chance to break through, and even in the many choices and circumstances of life, growing up, even their parents and generations before, and the whole ecosystem of people and society and how it is, formed it all to be how it is now. There are billions of little choices and chances, and the environment (societal, economic, ... generally the circumstances) make certain paths in the tree of chances and decisions more likely than others. It's like having many metallic beads in a maze-like gravity course, and then multiple magnets far away, so they only have weak influence on the individual bead. Sure, the geometry and weight of a bead have a more direct influence for how they will navigate the course. But depending on the arrangement and positioning of the magnets, you will surely see a different distribution of how many beads ended up in which end points. And many people = power, and eventually those become leaders and in the last consequence, that country will execute exactly that.
@@NeovanGoth That could be why Germany is what it is today. People like Hitler still exist, but the whole context, environmental circumstances changed. They don't get that many people that are supporting them, and people in general don't care about that anymore, they care about different things and so other positions are relevant and powerful. It's the whole environment empowering certain positions, then enabling certain charismatic people sharing those convictions to become the icon of that position. (Except that now, countries all over the western world change. We see, with the rise of inflation and change of the economic environment, a shift in positions taking place).
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LK-99 is one of those things that deep down everyone thinks probably won't work, but the mere possibility of it working brings excitement.
Like buying a single lottery ticket.
Sometimes we just need a moment to dream.
It also shows most peoples' bias where most aren't neutral before they even try it. No breakthrough happened by conventional means.
@@sociolocomtsacWould you mind repeating everything you are ~feeling~ through your keyboard again? Your words did not exactly resonate. In 2023 when *humans have* super massive data centers available to slave away on all the Math 👾 Problems™️, even a boring old ✌️ bit program can sort and rank whatever hypothesis is best.
@@andrewfarrar741 I'm sorry, your emojis don't quite resonate. Please write in English and not unintelligible child-talk. I can't help that you don't understand full sentences.
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When I was a kid there was a guy who would get on busses and checked everyone's ticket.
He was always really friendly and never had to give anyone a fine because he was so likable that even people who were attempting to ride without buying a ticket would pay the fare.
He was a super conductor.
how dare-
To me the person conducting a Fugue by BACH with lots of wood winds is a super conductor.
The coolest guy in the hospital is usually the ultra sound guy....
Must have been really cool to experience
You appear to be saying there was zero resistance to the flow of fares
Well then. I expected a flat out "no superconductor afterall" but the results we have suggest that there may in fact be SOMETHING fishy going on even if it's not superconductivity.
This suddenly got quite exciting.
Maybe is not the holy grial we are searching for, but is closer to what we were now. That is good in itself imo.
Interesting mix of results. Yes.
graphene (non superconducting at room temp. ) will float above a magnet.
IDK, I guess exciting from a pure theoretical science standpoint, but I don't think there's anywhere near the practical applications for room temperature superconductivity. That's why it got so much hype in the first place. Did you have some application for "weird magnetic stuff" that's nearly as exciting?
@@squirlmy If there's really "weird magnetic stuff" it almost certainly means new science. And that could be anything, maybe this weird stuff actually leads to a full understanding of high temperature superconductivity or maybe it leads to something else. But if there's unexpected results, it's always good news for science.
Re LK-99 superconductor, I have followed a bit on this, and one takeaway is that the material is NOT as simple as may seem to create. In short, it is a crystal-like structure that has many engineering steps to precisely form; you can't just mix something together and voila. Even if legit, we can expect many failures in reproduction since this is all very niche knowledge particularly engineering wise.
Yup making the crystal correctly would be tricky. It needs the Cu as a pair to work.
thank you sabine for keeping the world of science accessible to non scientists.
Not just non-scientists. We could do better with interdisciplinary learning standards for those in academic fields.
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@@SolarScionYep. She does a decent job of communicating to scientists stuff which is outside their field. Lots of popular science media fails pretty hard at that.
@@travcollier i am an engineer, there are some research aspects in my work, but i would never be informed about things i care very much about without this channel.
for all you know she is lying. you must fact check her and become a scientist!!!!! why would you watch this if you werent a scientist? go farm a potato you crazy lovable bag.
Thank you for the no nonsense information on LK-99. My brother is a PhD candidate in condensed matter physics and he mentioned how crazy all the hype around it has been. Im a meteorologist by trade so some aspects are not clear to me given the complex technical nature. But Ive had great fun learning about super conductor types and their potential applications.
If the strong diamagnet properties are confirmed, this is also REALLY interesting ;)
@@mathoph26 all the observed behaviour can be explained by ferromagnetism, no need for diamagnetism. Still very interesting though, copper and lead showing ferromagnetic properties...
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@@vitalyl1327 Ferromagnetism by definition will cause the material to rotate and then be attracted to the magnet. No ferromagnetic material can levitate, only diamagnetic materials.
@@Zeuskabob1 wrong. See arXiv:2308.03110 - it was demonstrated how an insulator with ferromagnetic inclusions can half-levitate, reproducing all of the behaviors we've seen from LK-99 original and replication efforts so far.
"We have never had this much fun since cold fusion" .. oh that stings - could not have put it better.
Thank you for the LK-99 update! One difference from “cold fusion”: While this early set of mixed-bag, leaning-towards-negative set of outcomes in no way constitutes proof of the reality of the effect, it is nonetheless at least two or three orders of magnitude _more_ positive than the reproduction outcomes a month after “cold fusion” was first announced.
Why such a high ratio? Because the one-month-later results for cold infusion were uniformly zero. In sharp contrast, at least a few labs appear to be having some difficulty _disproving_ the idea. That’s unexpected, and not at all like the stark futility I so vividly remember in the cold fusion aftermath. (I'm _old._ :)
The other striking difference is they have a theory for this, one with solid correlations and some indirect verification from the well-established existence of room-temperature superconductivity in high-pressure physics. Another point that is conspicuously different from cold fusion is that if some group can prove they have achieved the same crystal structure at room temperature that has been proven to provide superconductivity in high-pressure physics, they have a genuinely solid theoretical leg on which to stand. That never happened with cold fusion.
You are now my go-to place for updates on this fascinating issue!
Another difference with cold fusion is that room-temperature, room-pressure superconductivity is an extension of what we have already found (we have found atmospheric pressure superconductivity at low temperatures, and high-pressure superconductivity at _almost_ room temperatures, like around the freezing point of water), whereas cold fusion basically came completely out of left field. It's not a reach to say that a room-temperature, room-pressure superconductor is a matter of time, as opposed to a matter of possibility.
Results are universally non-superconductive, I think you are getting confused by other aspects of the result which arent important.
@@theendofthelinewhat I like is that I think this is likely to get wrapped up one way or the other in a decently short time.
@@theendoftheline Most groups who have got successful levitating samples did not check for superconductivity, because that's actually very hard to do properly, and potentially impossible if the sample is too small. It's an overreach to say "Results are universally non-superconductive" given that.
@@animowany111 incorrect, there are no confirmed full levitations since the original...hoax
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@@bernardfinucane2061 depends on one's tenuous grasp of the concept of 'organic', maybe?
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im just a barista with astrophysicist friends but they totally got me hooked on your channel. I barely know whats going on at the start of the video but i leave the video with even more questions and i absolutely love it! 😂
Thank you for making them!
@@sleepy3158 nonsense
@@sleepy3158Thanks for your helpful contribution.
@@sleepy3158well, it really depends on how you would define a successful career.
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'Most fun since cold fusion'
What a magnificent creature 🥰
LK-99 may not be the one, however the physics behind do point to some interesting superconductor behavior if the copper atoms are arranged correctly similar to what they reported and therefore there is a very real possibly a whole new class of latice contraction superconductors which could lead to a real break though within a few decades or even years considering the high motivation to be the first one to get a working room temperature superconductor. I think those scientists who were working on synthesizing LK-99 ran similar simulations and had been attempting to replicate them in a successful experiment.
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Awesome follow up! Thanks! Keep up your good work! Love your channel!!!
Re: LK99, my guess is that the material is so fragile after replacing the lead with copper that it makes confirmation a dice roll. And if the sought effects only occur along one dimension, it would be maddening.
Sabine seems more excited on each new video than previous ones.
These are exciting times
This one seemed particularly funny to make. 😂
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I call it the youtube voice. As a channel gets more popular the speaker tends to turn into a gameshow host. Higher pitched and more excited. I first noticed this watching Chrisfix and some LPers early vids and then the most recent.
@@AnalyticalReckoner I guess it is part of the learning curve. Everything can be entertaining or entertainment.
Please make a whole video on the milleniumTNG topic, how incredibly fascinating yet complicated. I would love to understand more of how it works and what it is doing. Amazing stuff
I feel like we got a whole lot closer to one, even if this particular version isn't the one
Yes, I certainly expect it will lead to a lot of follow-up work!
Apparently some theoretical publications conjectured the class of materials might be promising even if LK99 doesn't work out.
@@downstream0114
Right?! I myself don't see how they can't/won't be. I mean, it's an entirely different, and in my opinion more sensible/rational/promising, approach to superconduction - and one with its own entire domain of individual, specific opportunities... That's just awesome - a whole new world.
why?
Yeah its cool how much science is goin' on, love it!
I'm guessing that most of the problems around LK-99 inconsistencies have to do with inconsistent manufacturing processes. If I remember right, the Berkeley paper indicated that it would have to be synthesized as very small crystal structures, and that the effects would vary according to how much lead is replaced with copper and at which positions the leads are replaced.
Impure lead w ferromagnetic contamination thats all
@@billballinger5622 ferromagnetic materials that aren't pre-magnetized are uniformly attracted to standard magnets. No way. And no one has suggested ferromagnetism is involved, everyone is saying possible diamagnetism instead.
@@J7Handle yes that was my first thought. of course diamagnetism is the most obvious but the people involved may have included that in their fraud
It’s just doping two conductive materials instead of a conductor and dielectric like a semiconductor
There’s nothing crazy about it
@@J7Handle No you are incorrect, people are hyping diamagnetism, but finding simple ferromagnetism.
Lk99 seems to get more interesting the more studies that come out. I thought it would be disproven quickly, but the uncertainty maybe means there's more to this substance than we thought.
Thunderfoot have a great video to on lk99. ruclips.net/video/p3hubvTsf3Y/видео.html
I disagree.
Very nice, again. Thank you. The bio-plastic is my fav, that would be a real gamechanger. We could use MUCH MORE plastic than ever before, and no problem.
The fact that you start with the tittle´s subject is a testament to the accuracy of the show´s name, no bs, no gobbledygook! Thanks!
Your usual tremendous intellect applied to topical science news, lovingly shared with us - alongside your fun 'tongue-in-cheek' style.
I love the way you also refer back to earlier work & breakthroughs. 👍
I'm so happy you were able to give us some sort of good news on superconductors.
Western blots just got so much easier. Eliminating pipettes eliminates one of the primary tension factors in molecular biology labs. One less thing to put one's name on with masking tape. Next step is to master food replicators so that we can eliminate similar problems in the break room fridge.
Star Trek is fantasy and allegory but this tech can potentially be used for cooling purposes, and I think may already be. There's a cooler of a chip now that probably works like the ultrasound pad in the vid. It can vibrate individual cells (or all at once) which accelerates air molecules upwards at high speed. A lid with horizontal fins sits on top of the cooler chip so air shoots out the sides. This lid also absorbs and radiates heat away. 2.5mm high instead of 4mm for the current heatpipe and fan combo, and using much less copper and plastic.
@@PrivateSi That's sick! I was being facetious. It does actually look like some very useful tech.
Isn't it looking like we've come closer and even better _"We've never had this much fun since cold fusion"_ 😘
I'm old enough to really appreciate that swipe.
It was my first time watching your news, and I can't stop myself from telling you that I am immensely impressed!
Great job with adding some humour and presenting science in a way a leyman understands. Kudos!
Appreciate the shout-out! Huge fan of your work, and I hope my fake video contributed a bit to instilling healthy skepticism in people.
Thank you for doing this.
It is much needed in this day and age.
For some reason people think that only Hollywood studios can show us stuff that isn't real.
The main himself! Was it just a strongly dielectric material? Or did you have wires on it or something?
@@kindlin It's a crumb of asphalt from my driveway, suspended over the magnet with a tiny bit of fishing line. (the fishing line is airbrushed out, of course)
@@DmitryBrant Ez e nuf
As I have no video editing skills, I didn't think about how easy it must be nowadays to just... click away some unwanted part of the photo, or, I guess, even videos now.
I've finally found my calling as a Droplet Navigator
Always love the weeky news Sabine
Sabine, you look like you really enjoyed making this video. I sure as hell enjoyed watching it !
I enjoy your weekly breakdowns Sabine and how easy it is to understand for us common folk 😅
The ultrasonic droplet tech is amazing. I could watch that all day.
Sabine's videos should be a ubiquitous classroom study tool.
Great job making science and technology fun.
The people who did the war predicting thing (the complexity hub) are really good! They do a lot of big data stuff and it's always very impressing!
LK99 has been busy, looking forward to your response to the latest efforts
I just love the beep when a subject changes🎉
Sabine, the war predictions look like the first practical breakthrough in the field of psychohistory! You should have credited Isaac Asimov! 😏
Honestly, your science recaps have been an incredible tool to use while I have been going through all the fundamentals of different branches of physics and mathematics!!
I find it improves my knowledge transfer through extrapolating between the different breadths!
LK99 is a semiconductor, but it turns into a superconductor when current is applied due to Cooper pair effect. The lab's patent describes the mechanism and results
Today's headline from CBC News: "Claims of a revolutionary superconductor are meeting resistance." Outstanding!
I hope that MillenniumTNG will be followed by MillenniumDS9, and MillenniumVOY.
(Also we should call its predecessor MillenniumTOS - The Original Simulation ;))
Thank you so much for you and all the team for all those efforts in each video, choosing subjects, preparation, explaining, and direction! 🎉 ❤
Plz more updates about lk99 and update about all other things 🙏
Although LK-99 seems to not be an ambient temperature superconductor, at least it seems to have a strong diamagnetic effect, which is also very useful.
The possible explanation of LK-99's behaviour is that *parts* of produced material have superconductivity.
Then the question, can be manufacturing process be refined so it becomes completely superconductive.
Thank you so much for the update on LK-99!
Always a delight watching your videos Sabine, thanks for making current science accessible. P.s. Your humour is on point!
I was glad to see that the paper on conflicts described near @14:34 actually referenced an article by L. F. Richardson. He was the author of "Statistics of Deadly Quarrels," a book on a statistical analysis of war and its causes.
Defects in the crystalline structure likely would make it difficult to replicate superconductivity in LK-99. Pressure may also be a factor, and in the case of having a decent size chunk of the material, the interior pressure could be much higher than the ambient pressure.
I don't think pressure in solids really works that way.
@@kamikeserpentail3778 Actually, defects in a material can alter the stress and strain in a material, and thus make some internal regions high pressure. It's possible that a high pressure superconductor could work at low ambient pressures if it had large enough defects which were connected. Imagine a cubic lattice with a defect increasing the lattice spacing in a given region. The external region wants to persist with its smaller spacing, and therefore tries to compress the defect, making it high pressure. So defects can actually be quite amazing.
@@Laff700the stress/strain induced by defects, while large, doesn’t come close to the monstrous pressures required in other superconductor experiments
@@theangledsaxon6765 Can we be entirely sure that defects cannot be used to create such pressure if arranged right though?
@@Laff700 this material is what's called a high entropy alloy. They are created at high temperatures and pressures. There will be considerable variation in the manufacture of said material as one can see, it is a complex material. Small defects have significant effects in regular semiconductors, so it is expected small differences will produce substantial differences in properties in something as exotic as a room temperature superconductor. As HEAs are recently developed materials, it's unsurprising that different labs will have varied success in reproducing the material. More research must be done.
Wow, i’ve never understood these topics better than watching this video! Thank you Sabine❤
I love your channel, it's very informative and you have a way of making it fun. Thanks Sabine.
By the way, I think conflict between some people is inevitable. Well that's the way it is with some Irish people, when you put two of them in a room together. Your bound to get an argument.😂
Thanks for the update
I'm hopeful that even if LK-99 isn't a proper room-temp superconductor, it is still a foot in the door to developing one.
I'm just sitting here imagining my RTX 4090 using superconductors for traces and I would never be afraid it would melt (or need any cooling at all) damn what a dream. (yes I know the impacts would be so much greater than this) xD
@@maolcogi Good luck making wires out of ceramic
@@TheOneAndOnlySame it's like you imagine CPUs and similar computer parts are made of WIRES. 😂
@@maolcogi I was responding to a specific comment about wiring.
@@TheOneAndOnlySame I never mentioned wires. Derp.
Thanks for keeping an open mind about LK-99. It's clear at this stage that results are patchy. It's most likely not a superconductor, but we can't as scientists just give up because it's too good to be true. Do proper tests, wait for real data and ensure we are analysing properly.
It's too important to go fast.
Fun fact: E. Coli has already being used for several years to create glargine insulin, so it's actually saving lives ☺️
Fastest evolving thing on the planet.
"This is the most fun we've had in physics since cold fusion."
There is something really appealing about the prospect of making exotic materials in your kitchen. Who can resist? (That was a pun.)
A room temperature superconductor would be awesome (I have plans)
but I'm happy there's at least something interesting and weird happening
We have dead aliens and the wrath of the greys to deal with
@@BoycottChinaa you mean the wrath of human psychopaths posing as greys
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EPS conduits, anybody? Well, I heard somewhere that all conversations eventually get around to Star Trek...
That smile, tilt of the head, and devious furrowing of the brow at 0:06 was like the table of contents for this video.
I'm fascinated that copper was able to do what it did to a lead compound.
If all we get is a novel semiconductor, it drives our understanding forward.
If the 'levitation' seen could be turned on and off electronically, might be a new kind of actuator or very tiny cooling fans...
Lot of MEMS applications.
This is a game-changer . No doubt about it. do you think the implications could expand our knowledge also about the second law of thermodynamics and the concept of entropy. as I m thinking about the meissner effect loop of the electromagnetic field, see as perpetual motion
@@daysofradiation Probably not. If you do want some second law disproving hopium though, there's this thing called relativistic heat conduction which takes the finite speed of light/second sound into account and allows you to model heat flow more realistically. It allows for fun things like thermal shockwaves and resonance. It also allows the formula for local entropy generation to go _negative_(I.E. heat flowing from cold to hot). It's currently thought that this doesn't violate the second law of thermodynamics because locally the system might not be in equilibrium and therefore our usual notions of thermodynamics and temperature don't really apply. Recently stumbled upon it myself and it seems pretty fun. It seems like in order to properly model it, you have to use coupled equations regarding the evolution of the heat flow vector and temperature.
locally the violations are possibile..and we can assume this as a statement. We also all undestand that the most important concept of superconductivity is what is the rule of the entropy . Let's see Pine's effects in so called exotic materials , that is the same approach of Maxwell's demon concept@@Laff700
I simply love the humor along with such great news info. Solid job.
The chapter about statistic-based war prediction reminds me of psychohistory from Asimov's novels 😮
I just found my new favorite YT channel. Thanks Sabine!
The best channel on this app
I miss the times when RUclips was just a website. Or even better Stage6!
Thanks for the news, Sabine! 😊
Stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊
I love how LK99 created a big hype whatever the result is :)
SCIENCE ❤
SH.... The ONLY news channel you can trust (to be a little sarky 😉😊)
LOVE ❤ the updates in layman's terms. Makes me understand and feel a bit clever. You've surpassed ALL my teachers and both my parents.
If I recall, the original Korean paper featured graphs that showed zero resistance. My gut feeling is that the microscopic structure of what they made is a lot harder to replicate than first thought. If it’s real.
I mean yes, it showed a line which is zero with the naked eye. But the scale was not usefull at all. At that scale, even normal wires would look like they have zero resistance
Every morsel of science news is delivered with a little knife twist at the end… delicious
wow, great episode again, Sabine in best form, and we are always currently informed
That's an interesting and surprisingly relevant question. If there are no more questions, then class is dismissed.
Say what you want about Sabine, she is a reliable source.
I understand that the false positive rate in the earthquake detection method is high, but the events themselves are also quite rare. Something like 1 in 16 is a true earthquake precursor, but those 16 events are spread out over a century or so. If that's the case this can still be a quite useful method.
Most definitely, an occasional false alarm warning "earthquake drill" is far better than no alarm at all. This technology could save tens of thousands of lives in the case of a mega quake event.
Prof:
You're WONDERFUL!
Seeing spacebattles as a source was pretty wild since that's where I read fanfiction, lol. But the site absolutely has the kind of people who would compile this kind of info.
I've only heard of it because of this discussion.
Very good show/news. Thank you. Good going!
If we scale ultrasound down to finer wave interactions, could we eventually do something like masking for lithography?
Love your dry sense of humour and delivery. My dream debate/discussion would be between yourself and Sean Caroll.
Thanks for making this type of content Sabine! Always appreciate insights on current events from highly qualified people like you. Loved the jokes by the way, lol. 😂
this quickly has become my favourite youtube channel. Love the topics, your presentation and your humor. 💞🤓
Looking forward to your thoughts on what new class of materials LK-99 is.
Chinesium
Wtf do you mean class of materials. It's a solid ceramic...
nice to see you having some fun with these videos. it's not over the top and intrusive like in some other educational videos, but it's enough to make it feel more light-hearted.
I love your videos so much Sabine
- A physics fan who is updated by you always !
Love you
but you put a comment before watching a video itself )))
@@MagDag_ yes I wanted to be early! I am watching the video now
I like the transition sounds and the phone bit, has a hard to nail down 90s vibe
3:03 small correction: 100s was only for the NISP images. The VIS Image was 566s of exposure. (Source: the image descriptions in the ESA article)
I was gonna say, if those VIS images were 5x more exposed they'd be practically unusable
The best thing about the war predictor program is you can adjust your inputs to try out various future scenarios and see if wars start or stop.
You will find this shocking, but us nerds know what TNG stands for ;-) Thanks for the update on LK99, I really wish it to be true.
I think you should just accept that Sabine is one of us, and TOS this comment in the garbage.
Thanks for the updates! I just love your kind of humor.
Sabine's deadpan delivery of jokes is so good that even the biggest fans of dry humor are unsure if she's joking or not.
Nice presentation, Sabine!
I always find superconductors hard to resist.
Ha that's funny! Almost missed the joke 😅
Totally satisfied with reaction of science society related to superconductor. Mass experiments arrives one by one. Proud of them.
musk is a discount bond villain.
Oh no, bringing internet to where it can't be brought normally or where local ISPs provide terrible deals because there are no alternatives, how malicious!
@@samuelbucher5189 you're not paying attention, clearly.
@FengG0 I can hate more than myself.
@FengG0 I'm betting you are maga
Whoa there dummy whoa. I said Whoa.
This exactly what I NEEDED to know, nice LK 99 summary
IMO I find the results for LK99 pretty cool, sure it doesn't seem to be the room temperature superconductor it was sold as.
But I really wasn't expecting that to be the case anyway, however it seems like there may actually be something here. Maybe something which can be researched into and one day lead to an actual roomtemp superconductor.
It was very obviously not what it was advertised as ignoring the reputation of South Korean Labs it was a shity video that showed basically none of the properties of a superconductor. In this age of modern technology if we don't have a high-speed camera taking footage of the superconductor demonstrating every single easy to demonstrate aspect of superconductors we shouldn't believe it at all because I mean come on now I mean that video was obviously garbage
My guess is that those scientists did run similar simulations which pointed to a room temperature superconductor and that was why they were trying to create LK-99. They weren't doing bad science or trying to mislead anyone until one of them jumped the gun on an interesting sample that may have been expressing superconductivity or at least some significant diamagnetism far greater than pyrolytic graphite.
Don't dismiss it just yet. As this paper was rushed out due to an infighting within. There is a patent that has even better numbers and graphs.
SK's are known to be bullshitters in every domain.
I like this new format!
Hi Sabine, thank you for all your content. Could you make a video about the risks of Nuclear Thermal Propulsion Rockets which Nasa is planning to launch by as early as 2025?
Thx Sabine, even JWST has something to say on it with showing a question mark made my day.
R.I.P. LK99
Awesome! Thanks for this format Dr. Hossenfelder.
The war predictions paper is very much in line with the psychohistory concept from Isaac Asimov's Foundation series
Wars are initiated when it is economically advantageous.
"Statistical methods like this are instead built on the idea that individual decisions matter very little for collective dynamics."
@@NeovanGoth That's a very interesting idea. People like Putin, Trump, De Santis etc. are individual people, yes, but they merely emerged from a pool of similarly-minded people and coincidence gave them a chance to break through, and even in the many choices and circumstances of life, growing up, even their parents and generations before, and the whole ecosystem of people and society and how it is, formed it all to be how it is now. There are billions of little choices and chances, and the environment (societal, economic, ... generally the circumstances) make certain paths in the tree of chances and decisions more likely than others.
It's like having many metallic beads in a maze-like gravity course, and then multiple magnets far away, so they only have weak influence on the individual bead. Sure, the geometry and weight of a bead have a more direct influence for how they will navigate the course. But depending on the arrangement and positioning of the magnets, you will surely see a different distribution of how many beads ended up in which end points. And many people = power, and eventually those become leaders and in the last consequence, that country will execute exactly that.
@@NeovanGoth That could be why Germany is what it is today. People like Hitler still exist, but the whole context, environmental circumstances changed. They don't get that many people that are supporting them, and people in general don't care about that anymore, they care about different things and so other positions are relevant and powerful. It's the whole environment empowering certain positions, then enabling certain charismatic people sharing those convictions to become the icon of that position.
(Except that now, countries all over the western world change. We see, with the rise of inflation and change of the economic environment, a shift in positions taking place).
I come for the science and serious debate but stay for the production quality and comedy writing -( I absolutely love it all )😀
War prediction sounds like psychohistory 😊