physics

Lawrence Berkeley Lab Researchers Optimize Higher Density Copper Doping to Make LK99 Variant into a Superconductor

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Lawrence Berkeley National Lab researchers have employed computational methods to outline an approach for optimizing the LK99 material as a superconductor. Some may question why Nextbigfuture continues to cover LK99, given that some scientists claimed it was not a superconductor. Having covered science for over 20 years, I’ve encountered numerous instances where skeptics dismissed possibilities. …

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Original LK99 South Korean Researchers Will Present March 4, 2024 at APS March Meeting 2024

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On March 4, 2024, most of the original team of South Korean LK99 Room Temperature and atmospheric pressure superconductors researchers will have a short 12 minute presentation at the American Physical Society conference. Abstract: A16.00002 : Partial levitation, type-II-superconductor characteristic, at room temperature and atmospheric pressure in PCPOSOS 8:12 AM–8:24 AM Presenter: Hyun-Tak Kim (College …

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All Superconductors Absorb Microwaves is Evidence Supporting LK99 As Room Temperature Superconductor

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Chinese universities and research labs have published experimental evidence in support of LK99 as a room temperature superconductor. The amount of superconducting material that is made in pile of LK99 powder is small. The LK99 needs to have precisely located copper and phosphorous. This leaves one dimensional molecular chains of superconducting material. All previous superconductors …

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Chinese Experiments Show Near Room Temperature Superconducting Evidence for LK99

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South China University of Technology and Central South University published a paper confirming the discovery of a near-room-temperature superconducting component in LK99-type materials through sample testing. This is significant experimental support for LK99 room temperature superconductivity. They have found significant hysteresis and memory effect of LFMA in samples of CSLA. The effect is sufficiently robust …

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Theoretical Faster Than Light Communication Using a Microscopic Warp Tube

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Warp-drives are solutions of general relativity widely considered unphysical due to high negative energy requirements. Most research has focused on macroscopic solutions towards the goal of interstellar travel but faster than light communications is far more practical. The warping effect would only need to be large enough to send through particles or laser communication. The …

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Magnetic Star Can Cut A Companion Star in Half

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Researchers have modeled the dynamics of an equatorial explosion powered by a millisecond magnetar formed from the core collapse of a massive star. Magneto-centrifugally-driven, relativistic magnetar winds might be powerful enough to produce an ultra-relativistic blade (“lamina”) that successfully carves its way through the dense stellar interior of another star. They present high-resolution numerical special-relativistic …

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Antigravity Does Not Exist for Antimatter

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Antimatter behaves like regular matter under the influence of gravity. Antigravity doesn’t exist for antimatter. The experimental results were reported in the Sept. 28 issue of the journal Nature by a team representing the Antihydrogen Laser Physics Apparatus (ALPHA) collaboration at the European Center for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Geneva, Switzerland. The gravitational acceleration of …

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Scaling NIF Laser Fusion to 2030

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This is a summary of the information from the Inertial Fusion Science and Applications 2023 conference and the presentations and announcements from Lawrence Livermore National Labs and the National Ignition facility. There is already an article with more details on the scaling plans. The July 30, 2023 result already improved already got 23% more power …

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LLNL NIF Plans for Higher Laser Power and a Roadmap to Over 10X Fusion Gain

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The National Ignition Facility (NIF) at Lawrence Livermore National Lab (LLNL) made worldwide news when they reached nuclear fusion ignition in December 2022 but they went beyond that result on July 30, 2023. I am attending the 2023 International Conference on Inertial Fusion Sciences and Applications where there have been numerous presentations by leaders of …

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Quantum Simulation Analysis Claims that If We Made High-symmetry Phase LK99 It Would Be Ambient Pressure Room Temperature Superconductors

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Computational physicists have a new paper that says if we made better LK99 samples with mostly high-symmetry phase then it would make the claimed room-temperature superconductors at ambient pressure. All the experimental attempts to replicate LK99 room temperature superconductors have not worked. However, the attempts at replication have been for bulk samples of copper doped …

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