• @[email protected]
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    1101 year ago

    LK-99 is a room temperature superconductor. It’s a big deal, because it means that energy can be transferred with 0 loss and it doesn’t require loads of cooling to maintain that property (unlike “traditional superconductors” that need liquid nitrogen and other cooling to have that property). An analogy would be like if you got paid all of your paycheck all the time instead of having taxes taken out. The money you get paid is energy and the loss is taxes

    There’s controversy that LK-99 can’t be replicated

    Going over to the programming side, sometimes you’ll work on a feature and when others go test it, it doesn’t work. A common excuse heard is “well, it works on my machine”. Docker containers solve that problem by essentially (but not really) making a copy of “my machine” and letting people run the program/feature on that copy

    So the joke is, if the korean researchers were able to create it in their lab environment (their machine), why don’t they just make a copy of their lab and let others use it

    this is a very gross oversimplification, so feel free to suggest any corrections

    • @[email protected]
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      611 year ago

      LK-99 is allegedly a room temp superconductor.

      I think it’s a mistake that got amplified by fraud at other locations.

      • newIdentity
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        101 year ago

        And not everyone was on board of publishing that paper yet (even tough the research has been going on since 1999 - theirfor LK-99)

      • @rambaroo
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        1 year ago

        From what I’ve read, at this point it’s either a mistake or requires extremely specific conditions to reproduce