LK99: Credible contender for room-temperature superconductor

[jbermingham123]

As of yesterday, Lawrence Berkeley National Labs has replicated the Korean experiment, confirming that LK99 is indeed a room-termperature superconductor:

https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.16892

Its hard to overstate the importance of this discovery. It is certainly the most significant of my lifetime, and I cant think of anything else of comparable significance since the discovery of a working transistor in 1947.

[dchan]

Let's see how feasible it is to mass-produce and whether it has any short/long-term environmental impacts. It's absolutely huge if it works at room temps, so many possibilities! We would be unlocking the next several technological advancements over the coming decades.

[llamaorama]

Still waiting if this is for real or just some more cold fusion bullshit.

Let's hope its legit and we get hover trains out of it.

[llamaorama]

According to the news this was a bust. Oh well.