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- technology@lemmy.world
Beijing Superconductor (LK-99) Levitation Video Author Admits Fraud, Takes it Down::The author of one of the Billibilli videos posted as proof of LK-99’s levitation capabilities has admitted that his posting was a hoax.
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Is there a word for something that is disappointing but simultaneously unsurprising?
The Spanish Inquisition
Unsurpointing.
That’s terrable
If it is disappointing it doesn’t fulfill your expectations. But if you expected it to happen then it’s not disappointing
Not really, disappointing also includes a failure to fulfill hopes, not just expectations. You can expect an outcome and also be disappointed by it.
China and fraud - like peanut butter and jelly, they just go together naturally
So… how much ya wanna bet this guy faked up the video to secure/maintain funding, and didn’t quite realize how far it’d go ….
… and back tracked as soon as they realized there was about to be a shitload of scrutiny.
Could have gone way worst with years of lies Theranos style
oh absolutely.
I should release my paper about how I turned lead into gold. Nobody would care about that one, right?
well, it’s already been done. (well, that may not be what’s going on in the article, but the particle accelerators have created gold… by doing their smashy-smashy thing)(I’m sure the physicists love it when we reduce decades of their work to sounding like toddlers smacking stuff together to see what happens… it’s really
grown upserious science!)So your saying that the person who sold me my alchemist degree and the secret formula was full of shit? Damn.
Question for clarity, does it’s levation have anything to do with whether or not it’s a superconductor?
The reason that superconductors levitate it that they are perfectly diamagnetic. There are other materials that are strongly diamagnetic, such as bismuth , that can be made to levitate but normally the effect is not stable enough without additional components, such as being sandwiched between two powerful magnets. However Pyrolytic carbon will levitate , at room temperature, above a strong enough magnet in the same way as a superconductor would.
I think we’re starting to lose the bigger picture - Re-read that first sentence after the headline (emphasis mine):
“This is only one of several videos from different sources claiming to show the substance levitating.”
This isn’t about LK-99 per se, but one of the videos that came after the announcement, likely trying to capitalize on it if only for views. There’s still hope LK-99 can be corroborated.
