@@dralord1307I'd say it still means plenty. The problem is that people find less than scrupulous publishers (or self publish) and put out half-baked sensationalism that clickbait sites are happy to run with. And then it quietly disappears as other researchers try to replicate efforts and otherwise check the claims.
It's only notable because it's an extraordinary claim. What's useful about making these, stupid, false, claims, is that instead of having scientists in lab coats being treated as priests, it's returning skepticism to the general public which is sorely needed. Get all your boosters? We are on #10 last I heard. If not, why not? The science is settled isn't it?
Reminds me of the initial flurry around the "cold fusion" claim, including the, "Well maybe there was a chemical impurity involved that isnt documented," while folks are trying (and failing) to teplicate the claimed results.
Heh, right from the get-go I've been saying any claim of room temperature superconductors is about as credible as a claim of cold fusion. Which is to say, not at all. It's just another pons-fleischman "reactor".
It’s not that clear cut, we already have room temperature superconducting material under extreme pressures. This was an attempt to introduce those through stuffing a round peg into a square hole on a molecular level to recreate them with no external pressure needed. That said the initial video released clearly showed diamagnetism and not any superconducting effects. @@VoidHalo
I appreciate that you waited to make this video until there was a fair amount of information available, but realistically, it was pretty clear from the start that this was not a room temperature super conductor. Maybe the research will end up producing some thing, from what I understand LK 99 is an interesting substance that might have some interesting applications, but they were clearly lying about it being a super conductor.
Positive research and papers are coming out about LK99 in the United States and China, and room temperature superconductors are becoming a reality. Korean investors are starting to get excited. Sincerely.
I liked this video A bit of cool science news I also liked how you used a smiley face on the thumbnail, instead of the usual (and a bit cringey) open mouth face (seriously, the only time people make that expression is when they're going "Eeerrr")
It is much worse, I have no idea why he is talking about 5%? By the time electricity reaches your outlet, around two-thirds of the original energy has been lost in the process. This is true only for “thermal generation” of electricity, which includes coal, natural gas, and nuclear power. What about the heat? That's a law of thermodynamics. More often than not, that heat gets thrown away, dribbling out into the atmosphere. The scale of this invisible garbage is huge: About 70 percent of all the energy produced by humanity gets chucked as waste heat.
That’s a bad figure to understand the problem. It’s due to costs that they can’t afford to send it any great lengths so all generation is local within 100 miles or so. What a global superconducting energy grid is direct solar panels from complete deserts in the northern hemisphere summer to anywhere on the world market, say a town in Australia or a South American province at near 100% efficiently so now electricity can be sold tens of thousands of miles away. It would revolutionize the world and allow green technology to average out over the entire planet.
The editor for this channel is so over the top compared to all of Simon's other channels. In my opinion the repeating sound effects make it seem so much lower quality then the classic Simon in a chair talking with minimal sound ques and random cuts.
Just to curb some expectations: Batteries don't actually have a use for a super conductor other than the leads used to conduct energy away from the battery. Internally the battery still needs metals that will produce a voltage potential, and as such, these metals will introduce resistance. Think Nickel Metal Hydride or LiFePO4, or LiPO batteries. For electronics superconductors aren't necessarily the end all be all either. Integrated Circuits (microchips) are just that. Circuits. Sometimes these circuits require resistance, whether it's for current sensing, voltage analysis, signal phase change, filtering, bypassing... resistance is still required. The only areas that super conductors would help initially would be the conductive rails on a circuit board or maybe an antenna. A hall effect sensor wouldn't quite work with super conducting material. I don't think a simple transistor or diode would work either because of the very nature of how they function. Keep in mind there's a difference between quantum gates (qubits) and transistors. As far as fusion reactors, well the answer is still no. If these are room temperature conductors, then that would mean they have a maximum temperature they'd still actually be super conducting. Fusion is hot. Very, very hot. Now for general purpose signal lines and power transport, yes indeed. Should work just fine.
In the distant future, or not, it would be possible to create superconducting electronic components... However, it would be necessary to develop manufacturing techniques adapted to these new materials and to solve technical challenges to create reliable and economical superconducting electronic components. Additionally, integrating these components into existing electronic systems would require a gradual transition to fully realize their benefits. Ultimately, this would open up new opportunities for more efficient and effective electronic devices Superconductivity at room temperature and room pressure is a mystery to be solved currently, even the most experienced physicists can explain or even understand how exactly it works there are many things to understand I even believe that the ob must reinvent a way of doing things very different from binary, a bit like bit and Qubit
The use-case for fusion reactors is in building the required electromagnets for containment, which would remove the need to expend energy cooling the magnets that are in use today, which would be a step closer to the goal of getting more energy out of the system than goes in. Current battery designs wouldnt benefit much since resistance is a major source of heat, but, there are theoretical designs that actually use superconductors as a means to store charge which certainly would. Electronics would be impacted as well but they’d certainly still produce heat. Replacing copper traces on PCBs would be an extremely minor advance, but replacing copper interconnects on the actual ICs would have some advantages if it proved possible (big if there given the gap between producing something like this and integrating it into lithography) but even then we’d be talking about evolutionary rather than revolutionary gains, the vast majority of heat is getting generated by transistors, which require a semi-conductor and so can’t just have the silicon swapped for a superconductor material.
The claim that a computer built using superconductor technology wouldn't heat up is wrong. Simon ought to know that. The reason a gate dumps energy is because when a gate transitions from on to off, there's a small amount of time in which there's a short circuit. We could fix this by doubling the gates, but, we're not going to do that, it's not worth it to do it. There would still be loss of energy charge on the gates still have to be dissipated
If this happens in my lifetime. I'll be first in line for a hover board. Don't care if I'm 90 or 200 years old. I'm getting a hover board! Lmao. That aside, some really potentially exciting stuff.
you know, you can still get a hoverboard. All you need is 4 engineers who specialize in aeronautical engineering, electrical, mechanical engineering. Also, dont forget the 1 million dollar budget you would need to build it from scratch.
Not really. There would be plenty of applications using molded or powders sintered under high pressure during manufacturing. Not every potential application requires ductility.
@@OzzyBoganTech “Common sense”? In the late 80s and early 90s I and many other were developing techniques for creating superconducting wire and cable made from YBCO and later BSSCO high temperature super conducting materials. Item such as printed circuit boards using sintered materials. We also made magnets from superconducting wire manufactured in our lab cooled to liquid nitrogen temps. The biggest expense would be the liquid cryogens. That’s why the real breakthrough would be a transition temperature above room temperature. That was 30+ years ago. You might want to do a search on high temperature superconducting wire and cable research and availability today. Being dismissive toward others about lack of “common sense” often goes hand in hand with a lack of knowledge.
@@executivesteps and frankly buddy I just don't believe you because if you we're telling me the truth about your background you'd actually know better.
I was watching thunderfoots [Philip E. Mason - chemist] breakdown of room temperature super conductors and he seemed to think they wouldn't actually change anything as liquid nitrogen is so cheap anyway , even if this was real. ruclips.net/video/p3hubvTsf3Y/видео.html
I am a scientist, and this definitely isn't our first rodeo with this kind of thing. In semiconductors, we had a huge scandal with this awhile ago. Look up a guy called Jan Hendrik Schön. The man was cooking his books on all kinds of semiconductors. And on a more egregious level, a fellow named Viktor Ninov faked the creation of a few new elements back when we were all in on making new species of atoms. But the worst part about this, and the part that genuinely makes me angry, is that all of this was very preventable. When people with high standing submit a paper to a big journal, they almost always get accepted on the assumption that the submitting author is reputable so it must be credible. Regular scrutiny and peer review just don't happen at that level. But when a rising star tries to do something similar, the same reviewers are trigger happy to crush them where they stand.
So cringe. Semiconductors do NOT heat up due to their wire's resistance. The heat comes from switching current losses in the silicon. So room temperature superconductors don't do anything for semiconductor devices. Same thing for batteries. The heating up of batteries is mostly in the interstitial chemicals, not in the metal plates. Electric motors would benefit somewhat, but with the following major caveat: Also just being a superconductor is not enough. Most materials lose their superconducting properties in even a mild magnetic field which makes them useless for most purposes, such as in electromagnets or electric motors or levitated trains.. Also most superconductors are of a ceramic composition and cannot be stretched or cast or machined into wires. So useless for most purposes of carrying energy or being formed into electromagnets and motors. So very much skepticism is in order.
I don’t like the British language there needs to be in it. It was fun while it lasted not. It was fun while lasted. You guys do the same thing when talking about the hospital you’ll just call it hospital which makes it sound like you’re leaving parts out of the sentence and that you didn’t finish third grade I don’t care if you’re right it makes you sound wrong - America
"I was THIS years old when I found out Simon does that shit on purpose!" He still pronounces Nike like Bike or Hike intentionally because he knows it'll piss people off! I know, I get it, it's annoying as hell at first until you realize why he does it in the first place.
Sadly, this just proved that room-temp superconductors are physically impossible. Except we shouldn't say sadly, because we gained something that is a lot more important than any practical application: we learned something new about the fundamental nature of the universe
@@UnfortunatelyTheHunger what are you basing that off of so far the only results ive seen are failed attempts (not surprising since they dont have the complete recipe) and simulations that say it could be possible
That’s exactly the way the first high temperature superconductors in the mid 1980s were made. I personally made hundreds of test samples that were superconducting using a mortar and pestle and coffee bean grinders. That’s how everyone was doing it back then.
1:20 - Chapter 1 - Why this is important
5:45 - Chapter 2 - Bizarre origins story
8:45 - Chapter 3 - Preliminary review
11:30 - Wrap up
New Simon Video? Let's gooooo!
I wish people would always get this excited about having studies peer reviewed.
Sadly peer reviewed doesnt mean that much these days considering a lot of the papers that get published
@@dralord1307I'd say it still means plenty. The problem is that people find less than scrupulous publishers (or self publish) and put out half-baked sensationalism that clickbait sites are happy to run with. And then it quietly disappears as other researchers try to replicate efforts and otherwise check the claims.
It's only notable because it's an extraordinary claim. What's useful about making these, stupid, false, claims, is that instead of having scientists in lab coats being treated as priests, it's returning skepticism to the general public which is sorely needed. Get all your boosters? We are on #10 last I heard. If not, why not? The science is settled isn't it?
Reminds me of the initial flurry around the "cold fusion" claim, including the, "Well maybe there was a chemical impurity involved that isnt documented," while folks are trying (and failing) to teplicate the claimed results.
Heh, right from the get-go I've been saying any claim of room temperature superconductors is about as credible as a claim of cold fusion. Which is to say, not at all. It's just another pons-fleischman "reactor".
It’s not that clear cut, we already have room temperature superconducting material under extreme pressures. This was an attempt to introduce those through stuffing a round peg into a square hole on a molecular level to recreate them with no external pressure needed. That said the initial video released clearly showed diamagnetism and not any superconducting effects. @@VoidHalo
The beginning of the video has me wanting Simon to be cast as Zordon.
"Rangers! Rita is, allegedly, attacking the city!"
@@korimiller379 ....ALLEDGEDLY!
I appreciate that you waited to make this video until there was a fair amount of information available, but realistically, it was pretty clear from the start that this was not a room temperature super conductor. Maybe the research will end up producing some thing, from what I understand LK 99 is an interesting substance that might have some interesting applications, but they were clearly lying about it being a super conductor.
I understand that the methods ore questionable but I’m willing to; legally accept,them for my weekend dental shopping needs.
Legally
Positive research and papers are coming out about LK99 in the United States and China, and room temperature superconductors are becoming a reality. Korean investors are starting to get excited. Sincerely.
@@DSb-vn8qmAgree with you
what do they gain from that?
Simon, I love this channel I'm glad you've spent money and time on this as well, great stuff, watching everyone !
Just how MANY channels does this guy HAVE?
A lot. Simon is the owner of a RUclips empire 😁
Asianometry has a video stating that, even if LK99 was authentic, this will not affect the semiconductor industry.
I liked this video
A bit of cool science news
I also liked how you used a smiley face on the thumbnail, instead of the usual (and a bit cringey) open mouth face
(seriously, the only time people make that expression is when they're going "Eeerrr")
I have no idea what any of this means, but it is fascinating.
Only 5% of energy is lost via transmission? I'm shocked. I thought it was much more.
It is much worse, I have no idea why he is talking about 5%? By the time electricity reaches your outlet, around two-thirds of the original energy has been lost in the process. This is true only for “thermal generation” of electricity, which includes coal, natural gas, and nuclear power.
What about the heat? That's a law of thermodynamics. More often than not, that heat gets thrown away, dribbling out into the atmosphere. The scale of this invisible garbage is huge: About 70 percent of all the energy produced by humanity gets chucked as waste heat.
That’s a bad figure to understand the problem. It’s due to costs that they can’t afford to send it any great lengths so all generation is local within 100 miles or so. What a global superconducting energy grid is direct solar panels from complete deserts in the northern hemisphere summer to anywhere on the world market, say a town in Australia or a South American province at near 100% efficiently so now electricity can be sold tens of thousands of miles away. It would revolutionize the world and allow green technology to average out over the entire planet.
The editor for this channel is so over the top compared to all of Simon's other channels. In my opinion the repeating sound effects make it seem so much lower quality then the classic Simon in a chair talking with minimal sound ques and random cuts.
Ig nobel prize winners would be a great brain blaze
Good day, have a good day fellow humans!
Way above my head, but awesome writing and presentation.
floating head simon transcended to a whole new level.
Super conductors would work on Titan.
I would like to apologise to all women named Sinead on Simon's behalf 😂
as illusive as cold fusion and the sasquatch
At the APS presentation an hour ago, LK99's complete levitation was proven.
Just to curb some expectations:
Batteries don't actually have a use for a super conductor other than the leads used to conduct energy away from the battery. Internally the battery still needs metals that will produce a voltage potential, and as such, these metals will introduce resistance. Think Nickel Metal Hydride or LiFePO4, or LiPO batteries.
For electronics superconductors aren't necessarily the end all be all either. Integrated Circuits (microchips) are just that. Circuits. Sometimes these circuits require resistance, whether it's for current sensing, voltage analysis, signal phase change, filtering, bypassing... resistance is still required. The only areas that super conductors would help initially would be the conductive rails on a circuit board or maybe an antenna.
A hall effect sensor wouldn't quite work with super conducting material. I don't think a simple transistor or diode would work either because of the very nature of how they function.
Keep in mind there's a difference between quantum gates (qubits) and transistors.
As far as fusion reactors, well the answer is still no. If these are room temperature conductors, then that would mean they have a maximum temperature they'd still actually be super conducting. Fusion is hot. Very, very hot.
Now for general purpose signal lines and power transport, yes indeed. Should work just fine.
In the distant future, or not, it would be possible to create superconducting electronic components... However, it would be necessary to develop manufacturing techniques adapted to these new materials and to solve technical challenges to create reliable and economical superconducting electronic components. Additionally, integrating these components into existing electronic systems would require a gradual transition to fully realize their benefits. Ultimately, this would open up new opportunities for more efficient and effective electronic devices Superconductivity at room temperature and room pressure is a mystery to be solved currently, even the most experienced physicists can explain or even understand how exactly it works there are many things to understand I even believe that the ob must reinvent a way of doing things very different from binary, a bit like bit and Qubit
You don't understand superconductors, at all.
The use-case for fusion reactors is in building the required electromagnets for containment, which would remove the need to expend energy cooling the magnets that are in use today, which would be a step closer to the goal of getting more energy out of the system than goes in.
Current battery designs wouldnt benefit much since resistance is a major source of heat, but, there are theoretical designs that actually use superconductors as a means to store charge which certainly would.
Electronics would be impacted as well but they’d certainly still produce heat. Replacing copper traces on PCBs would be an extremely minor advance, but replacing copper interconnects on the actual ICs would have some advantages if it proved possible (big if there given the gap between producing something like this and integrating it into lithography) but even then we’d be talking about evolutionary rather than revolutionary gains, the vast majority of heat is getting generated by transistors, which require a semi-conductor and so can’t just have the silicon swapped for a superconductor material.
Simon's big brain is a super-conducter.
Its like the Iranian "Quantum Computer" that was really just a cheap circuit board you can buy off Temu. 😂😂😂
Hahaha 😂 nice one 👍
Neat stuff, thank you for this video
OK... What the hell is Super Cumductivity at 10:39 in? 🤣🤣🤣
The claim that a computer built using superconductor technology wouldn't heat up is wrong. Simon ought to know that. The reason a gate dumps energy is because when a gate transitions from on to off, there's a small amount of time in which there's a short circuit. We could fix this by doubling the gates, but, we're not going to do that, it's not worth it to do it. There would still be loss of energy charge on the gates still have to be dissipated
What did he say about flying cars and hoverboards?
OMG! What is this? Simon, what have you gotten into?
How do you run this huge content farm?
Simon works hard on presenting and managing his channels, and pays a team of writers and editors. It’s pretty cool!
He powers it with cold fusion and room temperature superconductors.
Basement slave labor
Human cloning
they keep saying their claim was right, and that they are taking out a new papper showing real proof.
Old news, but fun video
ㅡㅡㅡ 한국의 "" 신성델타테크"" 주당 가격이 곧 $10,000,000만원 나간다 ㅡ 다들 매수 많이 해 놓아라
Super thurough
Larry Niven?
I wish It had not been debunked because I really wanted it to be bunked, because I really like the word bunked. BUNKED!!❤
Simon was here first.
If this happens in my lifetime. I'll be first in line for a hover board. Don't care if I'm 90 or 200 years old. I'm getting a hover board! Lmao. That aside, some really potentially exciting stuff.
you know, you can still get a hoverboard. All you need is 4 engineers who specialize in aeronautical engineering, electrical, mechanical engineering. Also, dont forget the 1 million dollar budget you would need to build it from scratch.
Wow ... this one is late.
Wow, you don't seem to realize he has more channels
If it did work it is still a brittle ceramic-based product so it is not usable for 99% of the things they are talking about.
Not really. There would be plenty of applications using molded or powders sintered under high pressure during manufacturing. Not every potential application requires ductility.
@@executivesteps and I will repeat totally unusable for 90% of the things they're talking about such as power lines. Please engage some common sense
@@OzzyBoganTech “Common sense”? In the late 80s and early 90s I and many other were developing techniques for creating superconducting wire and cable made from YBCO and later BSSCO high temperature super conducting materials.
Item such as printed circuit boards using sintered materials. We also made magnets from superconducting wire manufactured in our lab cooled to liquid nitrogen temps. The biggest expense would be the liquid cryogens. That’s why the real breakthrough would be a transition temperature above room temperature.
That was 30+ years ago. You might want to do a search on high temperature superconducting wire and cable research and availability today. Being dismissive toward others about lack of “common sense” often goes hand in hand with a lack of knowledge.
@@executivesteps and we're not talking about that are we buddy. That's an awful lot of text to write your dribbling crap.
@@executivesteps and frankly buddy I just don't believe you because if you we're telling me the truth about your background you'd actually know better.
I was watching thunderfoots [Philip E. Mason - chemist] breakdown of room temperature super conductors and he seemed to think they wouldn't actually change anything as liquid nitrogen is so cheap anyway , even if this was real.
ruclips.net/video/p3hubvTsf3Y/видео.html
Soviet catgirl, you say?
Far to late FactBoy.
Do you know how to speak Korean?
If you know, please read LK99's patent application. It will provide superior information.
Thunderbolt said it’s bonk but, I am no scientist.
I am a scientist, and this definitely isn't our first rodeo with this kind of thing. In semiconductors, we had a huge scandal with this awhile ago. Look up a guy called Jan Hendrik Schön. The man was cooking his books on all kinds of semiconductors. And on a more egregious level, a fellow named Viktor Ninov faked the creation of a few new elements back when we were all in on making new species of atoms.
But the worst part about this, and the part that genuinely makes me angry, is that all of this was very preventable. When people with high standing submit a paper to a big journal, they almost always get accepted on the assumption that the submitting author is reputable so it must be credible. Regular scrutiny and peer review just don't happen at that level. But when a rising star tries to do something similar, the same reviewers are trigger happy to crush them where they stand.
As a rule, always take anything coming out of china with a mole of salt.
It came out of south korea
😂
im here first!
No
Weak, discombobulated and even boring! Best of luck!
Woooo first comment !!!
No
So cringe. Semiconductors do NOT heat up due to their wire's resistance. The heat comes from switching current losses in the silicon. So room temperature superconductors don't do anything for semiconductor devices.
Same thing for batteries. The heating up of batteries is mostly in the interstitial chemicals, not in the metal plates. Electric motors would benefit somewhat, but with the following major caveat:
Also just being a superconductor is not enough. Most materials lose their superconducting properties in even a mild magnetic field which makes them useless for most purposes, such as in electromagnets or electric motors or levitated trains..
Also most superconductors are of a ceramic composition and cannot be stretched or cast or machined into wires. So useless for most purposes of carrying energy or being formed into electromagnets and motors.
So very much skepticism is in order.
You know using the word cringe is the most cringe thing ever?
I don’t like the British language there needs to be in it. It was fun while it lasted not. It was fun while lasted. You guys do the same thing when talking about the hospital you’ll just call it hospital which makes it sound like you’re leaving parts out of the sentence and that you didn’t finish third grade I don’t care if you’re right it makes you sound wrong - America
The irony of that dumpster fire of sentences is amazing
Might want to give this another read through, bud. 👍
Sorry, You might*.
"I was THIS years old when I found out Simon does that shit on purpose!"
He still pronounces Nike like Bike or Hike intentionally because he knows it'll piss people off!
I know, I get it, it's annoying as hell at first until you realize why he does it in the first place.
@@lusjsjmsmsksm7347 Amazingly he edited it too, which means there was an even worse version of what he wrote.
Really just wrote a paragraph to say "I dont understand how grammar works, so you're dumb."
Thus was a “Nigerian” semiconductor!! Lmao 😂🎉🎉😂❤
If this actually worked it would be a game chsnger
Sadly, this just proved that room-temp superconductors are physically impossible. Except we shouldn't say sadly, because we gained something that is a lot more important than any practical application: we learned something new about the fundamental nature of the universe
@@UnfortunatelyTheHunger what are you basing that off of so far the only results ive seen are failed attempts (not surprising since they dont have the complete recipe) and simulations that say it could be possible
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Wasn’t this debunked over a week ago?
Eyup. Unfortunately, they released the paper prior to proper peer review, so yeah...
Yeah, this video arrived just a bit late
Yes
If you paid attention simon addresses that in the beginning of the video
The simple-minded fool comments without listening.
Wow, next thing you're gonna tell me that cold fusion isn't real either! ;-)
A soviet whatnow?
the use of a mortar and pestle in the creation
fact this was even tried is weird
That’s exactly the way the first high temperature superconductors in the mid 1980s were made. I personally made hundreds of test samples that were superconducting using a mortar and pestle and coffee bean grinders.
That’s how everyone was doing it back then.
Dang. Dang. I mean, man, I wanted to believe. 😭
10:53 Surprised that a clip of her reproduction attempt made it past the moderators ... normally this is more of an OnlyFans thing ...
Thanks for the video.
I love simon but sadly this video didn't age well lol
It was uploaded an hour ago dude
It was *recirded* a long time ago though obviously..
Why?
Why not?
“If this was real it would be world-changing…. But here are the problems with it”- that’s a summary of the video
Another Simon channel!!!