South Korean LK-99 Superconductor Possibly Real, Replication Efforts Ongoing
August 2nd, 2023Interestingly, the South Korean LK-99 superconductor patent cites a U.S. Navy superconductor patent from 2017. The inventor on the U.S. Navy patent is Salvatore Cezar Pais.
We met Pais when The Drive reported on a series of exotic technology patents filed by the U.S. Navy:
Over the last six months, The War Zone has been deeply reporting on a set of bizarre patents assigned to the U.S. Navy. The patents, which are all the product of a single inventor, truly sound like the stuff of science fiction and include high-temperature superconductors, gravitational wave generators, compact fusion reactors, and high-energy electromagnetic field generators. Most radical of all is the “hybrid aerospace-underwater craft” claimed to be able to “engineer the fabric of our reality at the most fundamental level” by seemingly bending the laws of physics as we know them. Together, these patents seem to be the building blocks of a vehicle with truly out-of-this-world, UFO-like performance. As part of our reporting, we have been working to better understand the mind behind this mysterious intellectual property. Now, the elusive Dr. Salvatore Cezar Pais has spoken to The War Zone.
While it’s not yet clear if LK-99 is real, many teams around the world are working on replications.
Via: Tom’s Hardware:
There might be more to LK-99 than skeptics expected, as two research teams have already confirmed the superconductivity claims — albeit in preliminary testing. Researcher Sinéad Griffin from the U.S.’s Lawrence Berkeley National Lab pored over the original paper, taking advantage of the supercomputing capabilities within the Department of Energy to simulate the LK-99 material.
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As a result of the simulations, the researcher published an analysis letter in pre-print form to Arxiv, where she confirmed that the resulting material should manifest the superconduction pathways for electrons to travel through unimpeded and without any resistance. Interestingly, she noticed that these superconducting pathways only form in very specific areas of the compound, namely the highest-energy areas of the resulting crystal lattice.
Because physics dictates that systems tend to remain stable at their lowest-possible energy states, this means that the amount of superconducting material produced with each “shake-and-bake” manufacturing attempt will result in relatively low quantities of the material. The hope, then, is that further refinements to the fabrication process will yield higher quantities of the material that can then be harvested and put toward building the superconductors themselves.
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But in what’s perhaps the most definite sign of a verification, Chinese researchers with the Huazhong University of Science and Technology have claimed to have successfully replicated the superconductor’s manufacturing process, posting a video on Bilibili as proof.
The above video showcases the Meissner effect as being definite proof of the material’s superconducting capabilities. The Meissner effect refers to the expulsion of a magnetic field due to the superconducting process. It is the reason why the video showcases levitating materials — they are interacting with LK-99’s Meissner-induced magnetic field.
A few definitions:
Salvatore = savior
Cezar = dictator
Pais = country
Isn’t that an appropriate name for a person who’s invented a handful of world-dominating, if not world-creating, pieces of equipment? It’s like calling Clark Kent Superman.
@Snowman. Whoa!
Dale, I don’t know what whoa means in this context. Please elaborate.
Oops. Whoa could mean stop. My bad. Your astute
linguistic observation blew my mind. Nice job…
Thanks.
My line about Clark Kent doesn’t totally fit; he wasn’t “said to be a scam” (see below).
You’ve made me more curious about Pais. Following are quotes from his page on Wikipedia. It begins with his PhD in 1999. No info from his earlier life — no birthdate, no birthplace, etc.
“This article may lend undue weight to certain ideas, incidents, or controversies. Please help improve it by rewriting it in a balanced fashion that contextualizes different points of view. (July 2023)…”
“…His patent applications for the US navy have attracted attention for their potential military and energy-producing applications, but also doubt about their feasibility, and speculation that they may be disinformation intended to mislead the United States’ adversaries or a scam.[1]”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvatore_Pais