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Is LK-99 real? Does it even matter if it is?

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YouTube threatened to file a strike against my channel for linking to the New York Times in my video’s description, so I moved all source information elsewhere to avoid this problem happening again. This will be how I publish videos from now on.

Sources (appearing directly in this video, in order):

• First paper (room temperature superconductor): https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.12008v1
• Second paper (quantum levitation): https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.12037v1
• Mistakes happen all the time: https://davidseaman.substack.com/p/lk-99-team-in-china-sees-partial
• First video! https://sciencecast.org/casts/suc384jly50n
• Inconsistency quote: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/viral-new-superconductivity-claims-leave-many-scientists-skeptical/
• Hacker News conversations from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36864624
• First replication efforts: https://elsazhou.medium.com/lk99-chinese-replication-efforts-a21318e4a71
• Second replication video: https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV14p4y1V7kS/
• Comment about second video: https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202308/1295553.shtml
• It’s hard to make LK-99: https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2023/07/lawrence-berkeley-lab-simulations-support-lk-99-superconductor.html
• Third video: https://twitter.com/floates0x/status/1686394749056634880
• Superconductors are most certainly not a panacea: https://twitter.com/drjolatunji/status/1684071807966650370

Sources (not in video, but providing important context!):

• Learn about diamagnetism you cretin! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diamagnetism
• Paper showing LK-99 superconductivity is possible: https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.16892v1
• NY Times interviews author of that paper: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/03/science/lk-99-superconductor-ambient.html

There are many more sources to read that are important. There is also conflicting information abound. I have lost some of the sources I wished to link here.