LK-99 Superconductor Breakthrough - Why it MATTERS!
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Is this the Biggest Discovery of the Century? Physics has always been my favorite field of study. Everything from how planes fly, to how solar panels work... but in the quantum world, things get weird and interesting. This new breakthrough coming out of Korea has the potential to be one of the biggest breakthroughs of the CENTURY. A room temperature, ambient pressure Superconductor. So how exactly does it work, is this research legit, and why does it matter? Let's figure this out together! Room Temperature Ambient Pressure Super Conductor Breakthrough
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9:55 Kelvin isn't spoken with degrees..(like Celsius or Fahrenheit)? Just 1 Kelvin e.g.. Love your Videos. Keep going. this message will destroy itself, greetz from brezel 🥨🍺🍻 land
This was most interesting, your research is as always well structured...
hey @ 9:15 on the right side of the paper you show a pair of electrons inside the green oval and your text says 'exchange of a PHONON' ... did you mean PHOTON???? I thought you did, until I just typed this out and I DIDN'T get a SPELLCHECK underline for the word phonon .... I've never heard of this and now I'm SUPER CONFUSED!! lol - I was following you up until this point, but now I HAVE TO figure out what this 'phonon' thing-a-ma-jig is LOL - THANKS A LOT RICKY!! And here I thought I was gonna have an EASY Saturday morning!!!! lol j/k - Seriously tho, THANK YOU... I'm about to learn something new and it's ALWAYS A GOOD DAY when I can learn something new in the physics world :)
@@Nobe_Oddy yup 😁👍🥰 Material "Soundwaves" 🎶🎵
okay.. I THINK I get it - Thanks again Ricky :D
I will wait and see until it is confirmed. Edit: Now I bring my own point of view. What was a red flag for me was the claim that the material could be built with simple minerals and simple tools. It seemed too easy for a problem that universities around the world have been grappling with for decades.
Same. My lil heart has been broken too many times by "Holy grails" ........man I hope this one's true tho!!! So much sci-fi shit could come out of it!!! 😅😊
What else is there to do?
@@WileHeCoyote yeah. This. If I prayed, I'd be praying hard for it to be true. Especially for fusion and EVs. 5-10 years is what we have to give it to be commercially viable. But man! That's not that far away if it's not all China Study esque cherry picked data.
@@imacmill There is a lot left to do. Nuclear fission being probably the next big project
Don't wait government might buy it , patent it, and store it in a warehouse next to the Ark of the Covenant.
One of the team’s lead researchers told Korean agency Yonhap on Friday.“Professor Kwon arbitrarily published [the papers] in the archive without the permission of other authors,” said Sukbae Lee, one of the scientists. Another member of the team, Dr Hyun-Tak Kim, was quoted as saying, “the two papers have many flaws and were published without permission.”
Yes Anton Petrov’s video mentioned there’s already drama between authors. Let’s be cautious.
lead researcher, ha
Resistance would still be futile
That actually sounds more encouraging as it looks like a play for the Nobel prize as it can only be shared among 3 people. Devious on his part but what would you do?
Sounds like Korean cloned embryonic stem cells
The LK-99 stuff you are talking about is essentially a ceramic. Even IF superconducting at high temperatures it would about as useless for practical applications as the cuprate material that "erupted" from the Swiss research labs back in 1987. Such materials CANNOT be fabricated into wires or other practical shapes with any ease - 30 years of materials research have been thrown into making that particular ceramic into something marketable. So far, the penetration of LN2 based superconducting tape into the market is about 1%, as it is just not worth the bother. Besides the engineering issues, which eliminate 90% of the potential applications right away for this sort of RTS, with a few quirky examples, quantum computer devices have no working principle that depends on the superconducting state. That you see cryogenic baths for the experimental quantum computers these day has everything to do with reducing noise, and not using special gate functions. regards, DKB
If vapor deposition of this can be performed, this would be a huge bonus. most superconductors are ceramic though they are not able to be used in this manner. This would open up many opportunities in electronics.
indeed, on a far more sober note, there are a few advanced applications for which a chip-scale deposition of a superconducting layer would have applications. Certain advanced junction types have the potential to actual be or stand-in for q-bits, but again, the noise factors at room temperature would still prohibit any practical application. Micro-cryo coolers are available for this level of DARPA scale research today, but you can see the irony here.
BNL down the street from me had this in the 70s..
I too watched Thunderf00t's takedown 🤣🤣
Yes, but if it had worked, and we understood how it worked, it could have led to more discoveries and figuring out how to create the same effect with more practical materials.
As an electrical engineer I’ve followed this topic since 1991 when Dr Paul Chu at the University of Houston was the premier researcher. The trouble with all super conducting “breakthroughs” is making the material into current carrying conductors. They’re made from rare and exotic materials and are fragile to handle. Nobody has been able to do more than make a small sample that levitates a magnet. It’s an interesting topic, but the path to large scale practical applications such as power transmission, in motors, etc where the major losses occur isn’t on the horizon
I'm sure it's only 30 years away, like power generation from fusion. 😂
@@my3dviews I fusion reactor generating more energy than it costs to start/run it has been achieved, it can't be longer than 20 years now.
@@Merrsharr No, not really. The experiment that you are talking about was using 192 lasers to start a fusion reaction. The amount of energy produced (about 3 million joules) was less than the energy input (about 2 million joules), but that was far less than the energy required to run the lasers. In fact it was only about 1% energy output as compared to the amount of energy input to the lasers, because the lasers used about 300 million joules. This was a very small experiment (as far as energy generated) that produced 3 million joules. Only enough energy to boil 10 litres of water starting at room temperature. So, in order for the experiment to actually produce more energy than it uses, it needs to produce over 100 times as much as this experiment did. That also doesn't take into account all the energy to make the lasers and a potential power plant. Even when and if it is achieved it will be incredibly expensive to build a fusion power plant. Thirty years may be too optimistic in fact it may never happen, since power plants from other forms of energy (like fission) are much easier and cheaper to make.
When I was in High School around 1999, I took a class called Principles of Technology. I can still remember Mr. John Thomas at Delcastle Tech HS saying that if any of us were able to invent a room temperature superconductor, they would be instantly famous. I never imagined it would be a potential reality in my lifetime. Edits - found my old yearbook and the Teacher's name. Thanks for all the likes! 👍
Exact same story but my high school was in 2016. My physics teacher said if we were to discover a room temperature super conducting material, that would be instant Nobel price and the scientists/country that does so will be rich af because of all the patents.
Room temp superconductors would revolutionize industry, but this aint it. This announcement will likely have the impact of the segway. Someone is trying to get some clout claiming they have room temp superconductors
@@tacobanana_forever everything you just said is totally baseless
@@tacobanana_foreverSo much for the scientific method of verifying by independent testing. Try not to get yourself on any jury duty..
@@LeonBerrange Have you read the papers?
"Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence." - Carl Sagan I'll await confirmation of the results from other teams. If they do... holly cow! If not, this is just another bout of hubris.
I agree with you. fellow human.
Just looked it up.. as of today (July 29/23) other teams are trying to replicate it but there's a lot of skepticism. It's not clickbait.
That sentence always reeked of prejudice, early judgement and pretentiousness, imho. All claims require solid evidence, full stop... there's not a particular category of them that require special treatment And btw, this new superconductor reeks of bs
As mentioned in the video, the fact that two separate teams have produced papers on this at the same time makes it more likely that the claims will prove to be correct. Not certain, but much more likely.
I doubt leading experts in the field wouldn't be reluctant claiming a break through of this magnitude
this aged like milk
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Worse. At least spoiled milk can be turned into cheese.
A video by Thunderf00t came out disputing your claims.
Just to add, I’ve noticed that the research paper used in the video is the paper released by Prof. Kwon, who was left the team 4 months ago. In fact, when Kwon published the paper, he did bot ask the other team members for their consents. Meanwhile, Lee and Kim did majority (99%) of the work and Kwon had very little to none contribution to the research. The same day, the team published a new paper under 6 team members (excluding Kwon). This paper should have more details and datas and they also offered to give a helping hand carrying out the experiment and show other reliable research groups, the actual sample they created, however, after they received the peer review.
Kwon, Lee, and Kim together hold the patent on the process. They filed the patent together before they released any of the papers. (WO2023027537 - ROOM-TEMPERATURE AND ATMOSPHERIC-PRESSURE SUPERCONDUCTING CERAMIC COMPOUND AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREFOR)
@@MichaelLaFrance1 I do not see how this changes the problem of informed consent.
@@CtrlAltSHIT maybe he just wanted the world to know about it sooner, isn't that a good thing?
I don't get too excited about these announcements until the findings of the research are reproduced by other scientists at different organizations. Ranga Dias claimed two such discoveries in the past 5 years, only to have his research papers retracted later.
@@lerpmmo Taking credit for other people's work is never a good thing. He could have leaked the news without taking credit for work he never did.
I’d like to remind everyone that Pons and Fleischmann were very open with their methods, and even directly helped other labs to set up their cold fusion experiments. None of them were able to replicate the results. We’ve been here before.
Yep. Clickbait by another desperate, 3rd rate youtuber.
Same thoughts here... And don't wanna go further down conspiracy road🤔🧐🤑
exactly . This clickbait aint helpful .
@@TheKb117 Money, the one and only motive for conspiring. Consumer computer hardware is made untransparent and uncontrollable to the end-user. I think this has to do with the chip-market and China. Waiting for the total boycot of superior computers. Not based on nm's. Parallelism.
This seems a bit different. If you were going to perpetrate such a fraud, you wouldn't make the experiment so easily reproducible. Being skeptical is good but calling a team of researchers fraudulent by saying "We've been here before" without evidence is unscientific and lame.
The nice thing about this is, it comes with a theory of why it works. If it turns out to be real, even if this particular substance has serious limitations (low current and such), this would open the door to a whole category of materials based on the same principle.
finally someone with a logical response~ 💪👍👍
Thunderfoot just absolutely ravaged this man. 😂
The other thing missing in the scientific data was the current carrying capacity with just normal cooling, say at 273 K, with just water cooling... the curve already had a huge slope, so even a little cooling might do a lot. Amazing video... the explanations were crystal clear.
probably not with just water cooling. You would need something to get it below room temperature. Superconductors don't generate heat since heat comes from resistance so there is no heat being generated to remove.
I totally agree. I though the exact same thing when I say the Ic chart. I mean, it does seem to be dropping almost exponentially, so if you look at the graph in reverse, it would grow exponentially with decreasing temperature. The question is, will the material keep superconducting by the same mechanism as temperature drops? Could this be a second, different type of superconductivity that only works at high temperatures?
if true, that would be a tu-quoque fallatio
@@Israel_Two_Bit most likely not. This superconducter works with the same principles as the other superconductors. The difference is simply that LK99 has the quantum wells prebuilt into the structure. The others are doing the same thing they just require exceptional conditions to maintain that structure. Once it leaves those conditions, it doesn't have quantum wells to enable superconductivity. Since they are prebuilt into lk99's structure, it can work at high temperatures.
@@Hackingmonkey908 That much we know so far. But what happens at lower temperatures is what we're discussing. I wonder if those quantum wells would then break up if the structure gets too compressed??
The fact that their claimed superconductor is not a super difficult material to make actually makes me a bit more likely to believe them, because now their reputation is really on the line. If it's not real, it should get caught really fast. Also, if it is real, it makes the prospective applications that much more exciting, since it's much easier to mass produce something if it doesn't need super rare materials or complex processes.
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It's not real, just Lenz's law (magnet versus metal, the copper plate they put the LK-99 on). The LK-99 material is a Ceramic that doesn't conduct.
@@DataStorm1 I am sceptical too, but just flat out stating that it's not real untiul it's been tested by others is just as bad as assuming it's perfectly legit without waiting for further testing.
Cold fusion AKA LENR lmao
@@jakobrosenqvist4691they can just give some sample to other labs, it's much easy to test, if it's real.
I've enjoyed your videos and the information you relate for at least a year. I don't know why I never subscribed before. I remedied that here. Thank you for all your hard work.
Just watched Thunderfoot's video. A bit more realistic...
Great video! Side note: The preprint site, arXiv, is pronounced "archive". The "X" in the middle is supposed to be a greek letter, χ ("Chi").
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@@VeganSemihCyprus33wtf? you're giving vegans a bad name over here for no reason.
if this is true, then we can expect to see a whole bunch of new recipes for room temp superconductors, not just this one.
Be making super conductors in grade 2 before reccess .
Doh , this is so bad Thunderfoot found it , apologize to your viewers now or be damned !
💯%The Nobel Prize of Gullibility 💯%
Thank you for explaining the physics behind it. I'm a Y3 radiology resident and not a physicist but I understood enough from your video to be excited about the implications for next gen MRI technology 🤩
These researchers have now kicked open a door to something that literally thousands of other researchers around the world can now not only validate, but also refine and possibly improve on. Who's to say what this will lead to when thousands of other brilliant minds from all over the planet focus their time, energy and effort onto these core concepts. This could literally lead to what could one day end up being remembered as a turning point in human history. That's how important this actually is, that's now significant this actually is..
Its going to lead to marketing and scams for rich to stay rich,thats all..
This wont lead to shit. A german group very familiar of this field basically all said "nope" on the paper already
@@RapidReelTVit'll be a "nope" I the end
Sounds logical to me, this is quite amazing to say the least.
The fact that this came on the eve of the UAP hearing is mind blowing. The key to building a warp drive machine would be a superconducting material to build the craft out of. Anti-gravity, super-conductivity. The two holy grails of science
really appreciate your cadence and tone. very crisp and clear
So glad I saw your channel. Great production and science.
My Ph.D was in attempting to create a room temperature superconductor at atmosphere, and am thoroughly impressed on how accurate and well put your video was. This is an instant subscribe from me, and a lot of trust for any of your other videos that I'm not as versed on!
I hate it when I think I can trust someone, and then they talk about something I have expertise in and they get multiple important details wrong. So thanks for this comment. I majored in Physics and didn't notice anything weird, but I'm still unfamiliar with a lot of this.
Yes but does this get me closer to a hoover board. Whats the point of getting a PhD in physics if your not working on hoover board technology
I am guessing it works as a thin film but the piece shown looked awfully like a piece of pyrolytic graphite and added an iron filing to make it appear to float. Most likely they have not finished it and want that money from the patent once they get the coating down pat.
My respects both to you for your PhD and to Ricky for an amazing validation on such a complex topic.
@@mi5iu491 You mean a Vacuum Cleaner?
I work in the semi-conductor industry, and I can see many applications (and hurdles) for improving our current processors and memory chips. My late father worked for Philips developing PET, CT and later MRI scanners, he would have loved this!
You make him proud my brother. I salute both of you.
I work as an engineer for Applied Materials, I’ll forward this video to some scientists to see what they think.
did your and chris's professors teach you not to get your scientific education from random youtubers who dont even do basic research?
@@chrisriches4688lol university of eastern saskatchewan community college adult education campus? 12 seconds of research youll see this is almost certainly scientific fraud
Boy, room temp SCs would radically lower the cost of MRI machines. Most of the hardware and expense goes toward the cooling systems for the "high temp" superconductors.
Well presented! 10 of 10 for studio set, edited-in-segments, and textures on plain papers. Clearly the camera loves our presenter, and his gestures.
G'day from Australia, So this is the first Vid of yours i have watched (i think), loved your simple way of explaining this, so i subbed, plus we have the same first name so that was a plus lol.
The thing with superconductors that I hardly see people mention though is that they have (practically) 0 *DC* resistance, while for AC signals they still have a reactive component due to capacitive and inductive inertia, which are forms of losses though superconductivity def would reduce the AC losses and could even sustain LC oscillations for a much longer time given the extremely high Q-Factor.
Interesting 🤔… Can you explain more on the capacitive and inductive inertia ? And how they are reactive with AC and not DC ?
@@mmarissa95 Have you heard of "Leading/Lagging" in AC circuits? That is what they mean by "Inertia." Inductive circuits store potential energy within a magnetic field and this magnetic field takes time to collapse before it can induce CEMF which causes current to lag by 90 degrees. Capacitors need time to charge/discharge and do the opposite of inductors, they lead by 90 degrees. This is all because AC is always rapidly changing the direction of electron flow. DC is much more straightforward, current flows one way, and simply doesn't cause reactive components that are apparent in AC.} If you want to dig a little deeper you'll need to learn why a collapsing magnetic field causes lagging current, and why charging/discharging capacitors causes leading current. Plenty of great videos out there on this concept because it is fundamental to understand this when working with AC electricity.
@@mmarissa95 the concept is impedance, which involves both ohmic resistance and reactance, reactance is inertia against AC, it has a capacitive component which reduces with increasing frequency, and the inductive component reduces with decreasing frequency. The reason it happens with AC is because AC signals are constantly changing magnitude and direction, alternating. DC normally doesnt experience this, except in cases where there are DC transients, such as Pulsed DC, or when an inductor or capacitor 'charges' and 'discharges'. Any conductive wire apart from the resistive properties can also be modeled as having capacitive and inductive qualities, which they do, and when you have AC signals this cannot always be ignored, especially with increasing frequency.
Even if this doesn't scale, just the fact that they are bringing a new way to approach super conductivity will surely bring worthwhile results in the future.
This is my view as well.
It won't.
Thanks! Terrific video. Love your channel.
Great video! Thanks for the good explanation!
This is incredibly exciting and revolutionary. The thought “too good to be true” just rings through my mind. With all of the scientific misconduct scandals recently, I hope this team completes all the due-diligence. I guess we will have to wait a few years before the community can corroborate these claims. Fascinating!
with jan hendrik schon at bell labs faking organic warm superconductors, im going to wait to be excited until a few more papers are released
few decades*
@@caesarsalad1170 takes decades to implement the technology it wouldn’t take that long to prove the material works.
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(Pssst - that's a Greek letter "chi" so it's pronounce "AR-chi-v") A beautiful, accessible, and clear explanation, as you always provide. Love your channel, including its name - easy to remember so I can pass it on to friends :) I got my degree with a professor who used to work with the "room-temperature fusion" guys at Utah, same cycle of huge news / skepticism / investigation / bust, shortly after Bednorz etc and their 35K superconductor was published in 86... except in that latter case it was quickly repeated elsewhere, then superceded by the YBCO type. More content, please, Ricky!
Couldn't have explained that better...I got a little chuckle when he pronounced the X 🤭
yet he is here giving everyone a talk about superconductivity...
@@cerescore7113 he’s a researcher and reporter. He’s not a grammarian. Relax.
Isn't it pronounced "Arkhiv"?
@@michaelbuckers Exactly! You pronounce the Greek letter "chi" as /khi/ not like the spice drink chai; the letter just looks like "X"
Just came here due to thunderfoots video 😅, man he made you look ridiculous 🤣🤣🤣
same
UPDATE: Confirmed to be NOT a superconductor.
So, those fancy levitating trains are not turning into reality anytime in the upcomming years?
ArXiV is pronounced like archive. I have a paper on there myself, and a degree in physics. Its a common platform for mathematicians and physicists to publish things as you mentioned, as a preprint server
Man I grow crystals for living, this really hit home. I also spent my younger years learning electronics. Electricity, conductors etc... I think they are missing one component to make this work, but it might just be how they manipulate the crystal to form, especially if it's molucules that are subject to polymorphism.
I work in the field of crystallography as well and I read both papers. It seems they took a powder Xrd pattern of the end product and it was mostly made of apatite from what I can tell. That seems to align with what at least one Japanese group is getting: a superconductive phase but very impure and not pure enough to exhibit the Meissner effect. What’s strange is that they seem to suggest that lk99 has the same basic structure and space group as the original apatite, only with slightly lower cell parameters. I’m wondering what their FOM for the structural determination were. They don’t say.
Nicely done. Great video. Thanks for that.
fascinating update, I am really impressed😃
When I was a kid and learned about conduction and the dream of superconductivity, it was something I thought of as inevitable, but not within my lifetime. This is very exciting.
I am currently, in my 20s, and recently heard about the possibility of fusion and now this ? I am truely excited about the new products that will be coming out from all this.
I am pessimist, cause I was teen when graphene was meant to change the world and it was amazing hype. But unfortunatelly expectations were too high...
@@TheIgdrasil1 Graphene still has massive potenital and is constantly being explored. Rarely does ONE thing just change the world. It's a matter of how it contributes into a much larger picture
@@TheIgdrasil1 But, unless the paper was completely fraudulent, it is at least a beginning, and "its foundation" has now been "made public", which is a bit of a big deal, if it works. Smart people will quickly determine if it is a legitimate, workable theory. We live in an age that would be capable of expanding something like this, and sooner or later, we just might succeed.
I've been building Superconducting devices since 2006. So it is already is 'within my lifetime'.
Super conductors are also frequency dependent. They work good at DC but not so well at ac, definitely not worth it at RF, but still super cool if it works! I've always wanted one of those hover boards from back to the future hehe.
Another DC/AC revolution? That is gonna be a nightmare if it ever happens.
It's not really needed on small grid level, but would be super useful on long range transmission. If it works out I think we will see long range DC transmission lines between different areas thatr then gets transformed to AC for the local grid.
@@jakobrosenqvist4691 That one looks better. But high temperature dependency...
@@jakobrosenqvist4691That is a lot of inverters. Inverters waste a lot of energy as heat. I wonder if that would just recreate the problem.
@@jakobrosenqvist4691 HVDC is already a common occurance - The Norway Netherlands|Germany|UK links are such high voltage DC transmission lines, and there are many more, that already are in operation today!
Thanks so much for making concise video
Thanks for the explananation. Cool. And ... I loved the Open Questions segment and especially the WHY THIS MATTERS segment. Thanks again.
controlled quantum tunneling is such an insane thing to me this is crazy i was looking into superconductors a while back never imagined something like this would happen so soon
*shrug* tunneling diodes were quite common before they got obsolete. You can still buy old stock of soviet ones.
@@sharpfang still a crazy concept in my head
To see this possible breakthrough in lifetime is exciting. Even if the scale up decreases the superconductivity, what remains may still be ridiculously more efficient than the current model.
there won't be a scale up, it requires too much energy
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@@VeganSemihCyprus33 Lol. You forgot to post the spam link.
It would be exciting to see a breakthrough like this, but we haven't yet.
@@VeganSemihCyprus33 take your meds. you are talking nonsense.
I remember IBM doing copper interconnects from 1997 , I wonder how past research and today's new finding would show what can be possible.
Yes, let's replace all the copper lines with superconductors. That'll recoup 5%!
The effect depends on distorting the crystal structure using specific metals. It may turn out that other metal pairs work even better.
So that's only the beginning than. If the theory holds we look into a bright future
And that's really the beauty of all this. These researchers have now kicked open a door to something that literally thousands of other researchers around the world can now not only validate, but also refine and possibly improve on. Who's to say what this will lead to when thousands of other brilliant minds from all over the planet focus their time, energy and effort onto these core concepts. This could literally lead to what could one day end up being remembered as a turning point in human history. That's how important this actually is, that's now significant this actually is.
If this is legit, hopefully there's a way to do it without lead so to reduce the toxicity risk of working with the material.
Strong diamagnetics may help in making electron wells (which are a key element in superconduyive materials) so Bismuth might be an even better carrier for superconductors than lead, however at a way steeper price.
Ricky is too young to remember the "cold fusion" hubbub, when two scientists (?) claimed to have produced "free" power by controlling a fusion reaction. It took about two weeks for their results to be tested, found faulty, untrue. When I mentioned this new superconductivity claim to my coffee group this morning (all over 70), everyone cited that disappointment in saying we'll wait and see. It WOULD be huge, if true.
I remember that, and I'm only 58 LOL I was in grad school in NC working with a professor who used to belong to that department. It was a time of much discussion and skepticism indeed! And that only a few years after the YBCO HT-superconductors were discovered. At least those were real...
I was in Caltech at the time and I remember the rush of those days with people working in the lab trying to replicate. I hope in this case it is true because, I agree with you, it could be the beginning of a new era (particularly due to the insights it will generate).
It isn't that he is too young. It's that he is a clickbait generator, trust doesn't care much about if it's real or not. This kind of thing makes him money
If I'm thinking about the same example, the two that made the discovery didn't rush to say it was a definite, sure thing. They wanted more testing to confirm their findings (which is *precisely* how science works) and were open with their process. Sure, they hoped it would be proven out, and were disappointed that it didn't end up panning out as they had hoped, but that's how science is supposed to be. Not every experiment is reproducible; sometimes, its some novel effect from unaccounted variables and you just don't know how or why it happened. It was the big buzz *around* the discovery that was the problem. News took the story and ran with it as if "cold fusion" power was already invented and confirmed. Then, after science did its thing amd said, "oh, no, false alarm, nothing to see here," the story flipped to, "oh, no, it was a scam, these guys faked their results." Not every failed experiment is a result of deliberate deception.
@@omargoodman2999 Yes, that was Pons & Fleischmann, 2 chemists. A large part of the criticism aim at them was for their haste to publish in lieu of scientific rigor for something so important - it’s a delicate battle between being complete and being competitive, first to publish. I’m their case, if memory serves me, they didn’t perform proper checks a physicist would, and instead of bringing one on the project to do so and slow things down and share the fame, they rushed to announce it… thereby forever linking their names and the term “cold fusion” to bad / fake science.
Thank You for the info
So cool and a great explanation. First visit, new sub!
I've never seen any of your other content... but this is what I call cool and high quality (and the info you provided of course). thanks for your informative video.... and yes, this seems like it will definitely be a game changer
What game?
Since I was a young man is read scientific magazines. Superconducting at room temperature and normal atmospheric conditions was one of the holy grails of the scientific world. At my age I thought that I would never see this happen. Your latest video and explanation make my heart pound. It would be wonderful to see this happen in the next 20 years. Along with quantum computing, we will accelerate our knowledge of the universe and material properties exponentially. Thank you for your site. I will subscribe. Robert
I am in the same boat... But... Let me put it very briefly. An electric motor loses about, say, 20 per cent of the input, and delivers, say, 80 per cent output. All a superconductor can do is to prevent the 20 per cent losses. I am on the fantasy side, if the idea is to get energy for nothing..!!
Can you prevent “quenching” and utilize superconductive material as an electrical conduit (like copper)?
Superconductivity is a phenomenon occurring in certain materials generally at very low temperatures, characterized by exactly zero electrical resistance and the exclusion of the interior magnetic field (the Meissner effect). It was discovered by Heike Kamerlingh Onnes in 1911. Like ferromagnetism and atomic spectral lines, superconductivity is a quantum mechanical phenomenon. It cannot be understood simply as the idealization of "perfect conductivity" in classical physics. The electrical resistivity of a metallic conductor decreases gradually as the temperature is lowered. However, in ordinary conductors such as copper and silver, impurities and other defects impose a lower limit. Even near absolute zero a real sample of copper shows a non-zero resistance. The resistance of a superconductor, despite these imperfections, drops abruptly to zero when the material is cooled below its "critical temperature". An electric current flowing in a loop of superconducting wire can persist indefinitely with no power source. Superconductivity occurs in a wide variety of materials, including simple elements like tin and aluminium, various metallic alloys and some heavily-doped semiconductors. Superconductivity does not occur in noble metals like gold and silver, nor in pure samples of ferromagnetic metals. In 1986 the discovery of a family of cuprate-perovskite ceramic materials known as high-temperature superconductors, with critical temperatures in excess of 90 kelvin, spurred renewed interest and research in superconductivity for several reasons. As a topic of pure research, these materials represented a new phenomenon not explained by the current theory. In addition, because the superconducting state persists up to more manageable temperatures, past the economically-important boiling point of liquid nitrogen (77 kelvin), more commercial applications are feasible, especially if materials with even higher critical temperatures could be discovered. See also the history of superconductivity.
Very cool, but I am always skeptical. We are still using lithium batteries and still haven't see much of anything from graphene.
How much range could we get if we use graphene?and what are the limitations?
@@amalxavier5102 Not sure, they never actually make it to market. They only write articles and make videos about how great it will be, but nothing ever materializes. In my industry we call it vaporware.
A look at the main video on their website where they "demonstrate" the magnetic effects of their new material, you will notice that what we are seeing is easily explained by the Lenz effect because they applied their material to a copper plate in that video. I do not see how any physicist, materials scientist, or even an electrician worth their salt could overlook such a thing if the video was made in good faith.
@@thecaretaker812 This is exactly the point made by Dave from EEVBLOG in a recent video. He calls BS on this "discovery"
To be fair graphene starts to be used over the last few years. There are batteries with graphene components (electrodes I think). I also saw graphene thermal pads for CPU to heatsink cooling (this one still usually loses to conventional thermal goop though)
Correct usage of the SI absolute temperature units is to say '400 Kelvins', NOT '400 degrees Kelvin'.
It has been 5 days and none of your top 30 or so commenters have noted that the video of the broken disk 'floating' on the magnet is a sign of diamagnetism, not superconductivity. If it were superconducting it would not be touching at a point. The arguments I have heard about purity or uniformity seem strained when you know even a little bit about the processes used to make the disk. The scientists were delinquent in not testing for diamagnetism before publishing. Before making a claim of superconduction they should have rigorously established that no other known phenomenon could generate the data. This is much like the Pons-Fleischmann incident.
Thunderf00t says hi.
Congratulations, you're now equivalent to Elon!
@@MegaWildernesswtf is that supposed to mean ?
@@rocoe9019 Elon is also a big bag full of nonsense, like this 2 bit dude
Lol
Exactly what I thought 😂
Your presentations are truly superb! Just enough science and engineering to fully inform us and not so much that you lose us along the way. Thank you.
I have tried for so long to hit that balance, not sure I'm fully there yet, but thank you Graham!
Absolutely concur!
AGREED! Now one of my favorite creators hands down. Thanks for the amazing work!
I also agree. I've watched several excellent presentations on this subject - yours is the best by far.
I agree 100%
Finally!!! I can make a hoverboard skate park without a liquid nitrogen hook up
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So Cooper Pairs, is essentially the fluid mechanical equivalent of laminar flow? As in, individual electron carrier waves reduce in proximal distance, and harmonious frequencies begin to resonate. Much like how water molecules will mechanically grab each other when forced through a size and shape that forces mechanical consistency in that specific molecule’s current position, orientation, and velocity.
The velocity and the density combined with concletup resin maximizes fractobium veno-boo. More than happy to explain if interested.
Man, I hope this turns out to be even nearly as good as it sounds. Humanity could really use a break like that right now.
i feel like we didnt make any discoveries or advancements at all in the last what? 10 to 15 year? idk maybe nothing crazy crazy like jumping from telephones to smart phones or something
I don't really know much about this topic. Can anyone give me examples of this new discovery on why this is much talked about?
What will this new discovery be used for?
@@fultonmersey generators I believe.
@@clover9725 Graphene?
An yes, room temperature super conductor, very trustworthy, no one’s ever faked one of those before.
Works on concert with my perpetual motion generator.
I'm in the "Show me this being used in a practical manner or STFU" camp. These kind of things pop up all the time only to fade away as fast as they show up because they turn out to be mostly useless. The only thing this does is elevate their stock prices.
Excellent video!
Superconductivity at room temperature is super easy. Just lower the temperature in the room 😮
I think the “battery” would be one of the coolest applications and also for fusion reactors, because all you’d have to do if I’m not mistaken is have an LC circuit pumped by a pulse every once in a while to maintain the oscillations, as the oscillations will die out of a load is attached to the LC oscillator, so you will need some more input the more energy is taken out, but it will still be super efficient and dramatically reduce energy consumption.
Awesome KeepWorkingSafe
Whenever I see video's about stuff like this I'm always intrigued but also think it all sounds too good to be true. Anyone remember graphene and how this super material was going to revolutionize everything?
this is entertainment, NOT news
Thanks for the video. I rarely comment on YT, and even more rarely I do on your channel (it might be the first time here), but it was great work, man! I really appreciate your passion about the subject, and your calm and modest demeanor is very appropriate for somebody (like me) who has no massive knowledge about superconductivity. I kept hearing about it, and now I can honestly say I can understand it, or least much better than before.
Likewise. Very well broken down
This is the first video of yours I've seen and it was very well presented and clear, subscribed. As for LK99, phenomenal breakthrough if true, I've learned not to count my chickens through. I really hope it's as good as its claimed to be, a true paradigm shift, one the world sorely needs. (no shade meant to the researchers, I just want to see it corroborated)
The catch is critical current density(Amperes/cm^2). In the paper it is not provided properly, as only critical current is provided(Amperes). In normal superconductors critical current density is quite high, at least several thousands amperes per square centimeter. If their 250 milliampere current corresponds to even square millimeter, it is insanely low.
Falsus in Uno, Falsus in Omnibus.
To workout the mA limitation, we can use thin wires with magnetic shielding layers so they can transmit current in parallel and add up to a high Ampere value. Raising the voltage will help reduce current too.
Thin film deposition - make narrow strips on a tape, cake multiple tapes, there, thousands of strands in like 5x5mm cross-section, flexible too.
What your comment said PLUS dozens of other even HIGHER VALUE reasons for the importance of achieving superconductors is they reason why it is "so important"; yet this guy brings up transmission line?!?!?!
@@superkoopatrooper4879 Wouldn't the residual current that remains affect the logic circuitry? Surely we would have to design new chips around this behavior.
this will *_NOT_* work. this is a *_CERAMIC_* not a metal. you can't make wires out of it. it's just another overly-hyped media clickbait storm that will flop. effectively, it's just like the usual elon musk vaporware. all promises and hype, with zero substance or delivery.
Magnetic insulation?... You mean flawless superconductor?
I gotta laugh at the 'skepticism is my entire personality' people that are saying 'it's just a diamagnet!'. Kwon's paper was obviously rushed and sloppy, but the other scientists (who are backing the fundamental claims of the paper, still) are some of the top minds in material science. If they're saying it's a superconductor, they genuinely believe that it is. They would not mistake it for something else. It's ok to be excited, debunkers!
Wow‼️Thank You! ❤😊
I am so gald that i found your channel your content is just pure gold 🔥
I hope people try to recreate these results soon. It would be game changing for my field, I work in microwave integrated circuits and having lossless interconnects would be a game changer. Especially as we approach THz frequencies. I would imagine that once the superconductor is replicated, it will quickly find its way into integrated circuit processes.
props
Serious question, coming from an EE: Is high bandwidth transmission in the THz range even possible over the air? I have always been led to believe that the transmission distance would be prohibitively short and the power requirements high
@@alexanderkuhn2298 I've worked on lower frequency radios (VHF and UHF) and GHz range of microwave, it's been my experience that the lower frequency bands do not have the range of the higher, but the higher frequencies do not deal with obstructions as well as the lower frequencies do. If that trend carries on in the THz range, they would have very good range as long as there is a clear LOS between the two points of transmission. I'd really like to know the answer to your question, hopefully @tylershepard4269 replies :)
I do have some updates to this. It seems like a couple teams have been able to successfully recreate LK-99. There is obviously a lot of work that remains to be done on the development of this material, but nonetheless, it is a promising development.
Already recreated 3x in China.
Safe to say that by this time next month, we'll all either be very disappointed or living in a changed world
padam tss....
excited for the follow up, from what ive seen this was not repeatable.
I think Thunderf00t did a good job busting this video.
Thank you for digging this out and reporting on it. This discovery (material properties)/ invention (fabrication methodology), and the refinements that will possibly follow, will have a massive impact on our world. What a fabulous time for scientific advancement.
You forgot that other 'ology Mythology.
It's not confirmed yet. Let's wait for another couple of days everything will become clear. Most likely the next week, even possibly this weekends. And within 1 month either confirmation or questioning papers/comments will become available as preprints, I believe.
as cool and amazing as this sounds.... this still feels like a fantasy. I'm personally not going to hold my breath on this till I see an actual outcome from this. Thank you for the video and I hope my expectations are wrong.
Hey. You never know. I'm still shocked by being able to make graphene in a blender.
Two teams claim to have replicated it so far. Only took 2 days. Team in china released a video of it floating.
@@ImmortanJoeCamel No way to mass produce graphene yet though
@@Eternal_Albion and its authenticity has been reinforced by DFT simulations it looks on track to be genuine, or at least a far cry from the recent scandals
It's fake south koreans are known to be scammers
It depends on the size of your conductor and the amount of current you are trying to get through it, copper test out in micro ohms.
This is the first video of yours I'm seeing on youtube. 5 mins into the video, I liked, subscribed to your content. Also, I have never done that before. Great presentation man. Gained so much from this. Thank you.
lol... its all nonsense
@@bastiaan7777777 what exactly?
Very Interesting / very promising / keep us informed!
Imagine room temperature FET superconductor switches? Wait would that also constitute Field effect switches for magnetic flux? I have been speculating if that could be useful for the search for new types of magnetic motors... this simple room temperature superconductor would already be quite interesting for induction motor rotors!
Well it can't make that much difference because they are already around 90-99% efficient. If you look at the new MAHLE motor, it doesn't even need permanent magnets and has high efficiency across the rev/torque spectrum. So any improvements with superconductors wouldn't really be game changing for motors. Room temp superconductors are a way bigger deal in other areas. Who knows, maybe we'll put them in cars/highways and make cars float lol.
@@Embassy_of_Jupiter max torque? There are surely some Exponents that make a significant difference still!
@@usertogo I don't know that without looking it up, but they are designed for electric cars, so enough torque for that. There's also other permanent magnet free motors for EVs, such as from BMW, but I think they are brushed. MAHLE's is brushless. Based on what I've read, they've pretty much "solved" EV motors.
Our current (joke more than intended) tranistors waste most power to switch states. having super conducting ones wouldt make them faster necessarily but you wouldnt have to cool them. Which in turn means you can drive them harder to get them to swicth faster so yeah faster and 0 energy consuption. Lets see what the smart people figure out.
Damn, I wish I was 50 years younger! This superconducting breakthrough, if legit will cause a plethora of technological advances ! Here's hoping someone will create extensive human age elongation!
One quick search (1) No sub here... " A team from Korea University led by Sukbae Lee and Ji-Hoon Kim began studying this material in 1999. According to their claims, LK-99 acts as a superconductor at temperatures below 400 K (127 °C; 260 °F) and at ambient pressure. However, there is no evidence to support these claims"
This would really be groundbreaking for technology of all kinds really. I'm studying computer science in graduate school next year, and I want to study quantum computers more in any way I can. I never really imagined they'd amount to anything more than what they're used for today. Imagining a world where quantum computers could be the size of a smartphone is mind boggling.
awesome vid. explains in basic terms yet gets technical where needed. whenever they confirm these two studies i'll be looking to this channel to have the results explained.
Clickbait.
As someone who has had an interest in this for years, I can't even begin to explain how excited I am at the possibility of this, if confirmed by peers. The amount of feasible applications of this could really change so much about our world.
The problem with superconducting motors is there is no superconducting equivalent in magnetism. The core will get hot, exceeding the superconducting temperature of the "wire". A possible alternative is to wind many small "U" shaped coils, without a core. The strength of the magnetic field is determined by it's length. The core "shorts out" the air, creating a small gap. If the conventional motors gap is 1, and the "U" shaped coil's gap is 100, then 100 times the current would be required for the same strength.
There are two things that are a bit dubious about this. First is when you look at the resistivity chart in the 2nd paper. It looks like it doesn't drop to zero straight away but first reaches a non-zero value before decreasing to zero. And because of the big scale of units on the vertical axis it may look like it eventually drops to zero but that's hard to determine because even copper would visibly show to have zero resistivity in this chart (as was pointed out by Dr. Alex Kaplan). Second is the video....the material is not floating freely so it doesn't look like the Meissner effect, it looks more like a diamagnetic material (as was pointed out by several experts in condensed matter).
Neat! I'm not getting my hopes up yet (I've seen enough "game changing" discoveries that have yet to amount to anything tangible), but the possibilities are really cool.
If this is true, then it would finally be feasible, although very expensive, to transfer electricity from the hot dry deserts of USA or Africa to the cold areas of USA and Europe. Not only that, but running electricity superconductor wires from EU (i.e. Spain) to USA and then to Australia could give the whole of USA, EU, AU, and other places like Canada and Africa could also be plugged into the grid to be part of the deal. And it would also change computing, meaning that CPUs and GPUs will be able to use it to improve their computing power, but it would require keeping the PC's temperature as close to the optimal temperature range as possible, which is tricky because the CPU and GPU tend to get very hot while in use, so they would need to engineer superconductors which to get more better superconductors the closer they get to their maximum recommended temperature or a few degrees below that.
Yeah, there are currently 3 power lines across Gibralter but the big price drop in solar panels is too much competition for them.
@@3DThrills Exactly! If they could drop the transmission loses over large distances, then outsourced solar could become a thing. And even in Europe, countries like Spain could be exporting solar power to northern countries for cheaper than it takes them to produce that power with coal. Not only that, but it could allow us to switch the AC/DC usage due to reduced or removed loss over distance. Countries in Western Europe could provide power to Eastern Europe while the sun is not yet up (or not up enough) in Eastern Europe, and Easter Europe could do the same for Western Europe. Same for USA's East Coast and West Coast. Get a transatlantic power cable between USA and EU, and one between USA and AU, and connect them together, and the whole western world could use solar power from the others.
is it superconductive only along the columns ? (directional) that might have it's own benefits, as it would limit eddy currents