EEVblog 1555 - LK99 Ambient Temperature Superconductor BUSTED!

[EEVblog]

They changed the video description!
It's no longer a copper plate, it's an enriched uranium 235 plate!
And they somehow reset the video view count and thumbs without changing the URL.

I'm no chemist, but it's a very strange material choice to demonstrate your superconductor film. And it's one of the most controlled materials on earth, so the cynic in me says it's very convenient if you don't want people to verify.
I can't help but think they are just taking the piss in response to my video.
In that case it's rather funny and I tip my tap to the joke. But when the whole world is questioning the credibility of your research, is that such a good idea?
But I'm open to someone explaining why you'd use enriched uranium 235 for such a thing?

[Bud]

Can one casually handle enriched uranium 235 wearing only latex gloves or is it another embarrassing detail?

[EEVblog]

Can one casually handle enriched uranium 235 wearing only latex gloves or is it another embarrassing detail?

IIRC correctly, if it's a solid then you can handle it with your hands.

[EEVblog]

Sound like there may be some team drama:
https://twitter.com/cyboerg42/status/1685996886690267137?s=20

[Ranayna]

Is there some joke going on here that is flying waaaaaay over my head? Or have they really changed the description multiple times?
It shows "deposited on a copper plate" for me now. It also did yesterday.
I jumped around a bit with VPN, the description is always the same.

EDIT: Nevermind 
Two different Video URLs:

Uranium Plate, linked by Dave, 47 seconds long.


Copper Plate, linked by gunarm, also the same as in daves video, 48 seconds long

[nctnico]

Is there some joke going on here that is flying waaaaaay over my head? Or have they really changed the description multiple times?

Most likely something got lost in translation. In my experience the South Koreans are not the best where it comes to mastering the English language. Let others try to re-create the experiment.

[EEVblog]

EDIT: I see Ranayna already posted this above. I should have twigged to this when the video count had been reset.

It gets stranger. There are two videos, they didn't change the description.

The link I posted is the one I had in my video description and card. But I checked my actual video and it is indeed the other video (that still says copper) with  179k views.
So it seems there are two copies of the videos on two different channels. Once channel is "@qcentre" and the other is "@q-centre". Both have legit emails to the company domain, and the uranium one is on a channel dating from 2012 but was uploaded yesterday.
I don't know how I got the newer video link in my original video description and card, but used the original one to record the screen capture.
So more evidence it's a joke re-upload? But if so I don't know how you fake the business email address, so it's got to be them.

The "copper" video:

The "uranium" video:

[Ranayna]

Is there some joke going on here that is flying waaaaaay over my head? Or have they really changed the description multiple times?

Most likely something got lost in translation. In my experience the South Koreans are not the best where it comes to mastering the English language.

No, i thought something was going on here in this Thread
On the first page already @aWaken mentioned uranium, which i took as a take on it being unclear if the video is really associated to QCentre.
But now Dave mentioned Uranium well, while at the same time, the links i knew only mention copper.
It turned out there are *two* videos, and yes, the uranium might be a reaction to Dave. Who knows. 
https://qcentre.co.kr/ is still down for me, still with what deeple translates to a "Bandwith Exceeded" message, so i do not know if they are reallt now linking to the "uranium" version.

[tszaboo]

Can one casually handle enriched uranium 235 wearing only latex gloves or is it another embarrassing detail?

Half life is millions of years, so not more radioactive than a banana.
Why would you choose it to grow ceramics on, no idea.

But... so what?   It's a pointless video.  It doesn't indicate anything one way or the other.  There's no particular text explaining what the video is about, other than saying it is a "Magnetic Property Test of LK-99 Film". 

There doesn't need to be any other explaination for everyone with even a modicum of knowledge in the subject to know that it doesn't matter what this test is supposed to show, it's laughable BS to do such a thing using a copper plate. This is the kind of level of silliness you expect from a dodgy crowd funding video, let alone out of a university studying this stuff.
You put up a stupid video *front and centre* on your *commercial* website and bask in the worldwide glory of this discovery, damn right you are going to get called out for your stupid ridiculous video.
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

It looks like an internal test. I don't think it was ever supposed to be released.
That information seems to make sense. Someone made this material, worked on it, then left the research. probably realized his idea will never work. Then someone else picked up the pieces, saw that he was working on room temperature superconductor, and then it got released somehow. I mean, if it work, that's instant Nobel price, and investments until the cows come home.

[EEVblog]

So more evidence it's a joke re-upload? But if so I don't know how you fake the business email address, so it's got to be them.

Several people verified you can change email without re-verification, so likely 3rd party troll.

[nctnico]

So more evidence it's a joke re-upload? But if so I don't know how you fake the business email address, so it's got to be them.

Several people verified you can change email without re-verification, so likely 3rd party troll.

But the joke is on all the Youtubers that got wound up about a video that has zero engineering / scientific content and context to start with. That should have been a bright red herring. At least the paper shows some actual data and information to reproduce the material (by people well versed into creating these kind of materials).

[Bud]

When a car manufacturer makes an announcement to general public that a new concept car was created, do they publish the car drawings in some obscure magazin or do they put the car on the display at autoshows for everyone to see ?

[nctnico]

Would you take a model-T Ford as a serious display/image for a new car? I guess not and the videos showing nothing more than waving a magnet along a piece of non-ferrous metal are just like that (and most likely fake or a distraction).

[nixfu]

Replicated?  Someone did actual science and replicated experimental results? Could it be actual science is going on?

Breakthrough in Superconductivity: Huazhong University Scientists Report First Successful Replication of LK-99. In a potentially landmark development in the world of superconductor research, scientists at the Huazhong University of Science and Technology have claimed to achieve the first successful replication of the superconducting material LK-99.

https://beijingtimes.com/china/2023/08/01/breakthrough-in-superconductivity-huazhong-university-scientists-report-first-successful-replication-of-lk-99/

[Fungus]

Replicated?  Someone did actual science and replicated experimental results? Could it be actual science is going on?

What have they "replicated"? I don't see any superconductivity in that video.

[EEVblog]

But the joke is on all the Youtubers that got wound up about a video that has zero engineering / scientific content and context to start with. That should have been a bright red herring. At least the paper shows some actual data and information to reproduce the material (by people well versed into creating these kind of materials).

That's exactly why I did my video. There was all this media and community hype over this, so I go the the companies website and the first thing I see is so absolutely laughable I had to share it.
And here people are expecting me, a regular electronics engineer, to either confirm or bust some deep superconductor physics 

[5U4GB]

Dave completely busts the demo video of their LK-99 material with a pracical lab example, it's so embarrassing you won't believe it!

I think Dave's video may be faked as well, I mean if you look carefully at the shot of the FR4 you can see the strings!  Shock, horror, scandal!

[EEVblog]

I think Dave's video may be faked as well, I mean if you look carefully at the shot of the FR4 you can see the strings!  Shock, horror, scandal!

I'm offended!
All I had to do was blow on it 

[firewalker]

Did any third party lab tried to replicate the paper?

Alexander.

[Psi]

Did any third party lab tried to replicate the paper?

Alexander.

Many are working on it.
There is a table someone created here to track progress. I dunno how up to date or accurate it is
https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/claims-of-room-temperature-and-ambient-pressure-superconductor.1106083/page-11

[firewalker]

I watched the following videos. It states no one was able to replicate it.



Alexander.

[SiliconWizard]

I wasn't expecting that.

[Fungus]

Did any third party lab tried to replicate the paper?

Many are working on it.

Of course.

In other news: The "over unity" and "free energy" youtube channels have millions of views.

[5U4GB]

Bloomberg sent a reporter to visit the Quantum Energy Research Centre.  It's... I dunno, I can't read Korean, a laundromat?  Sort of par for the course for this whole story.

[Bud]