LK-99 is a room temperature superconductor. It’s a big deal, because it means that energy can be transferred with 0 loss and it doesn’t require loads of cooling to maintain that property (unlike “traditional superconductors” that need liquid nitrogen and other cooling to have that property). An analogy would be like if you got paid all of your paycheck all the time instead of having taxes taken out. The money you get paid is energy and the loss is taxes

There’s controversy that LK-99 can’t be replicated

Going over to the programming side, sometimes you’ll work on a feature and when others go test it, it doesn’t work. A common excuse heard is “well, it works on my machine”. Docker containers solve that problem by essentially (but not really) making a copy of “my machine” and letting people run the program/feature on that copy

So the joke is, if the korean researchers were able to create it in their lab environment (their machine), why don’t they just make a copy of their lab and let others use it

this is a very gross oversimplification, so feel free to suggest any corrections

[–] eestileib@sh.itjust.works 61 points 1 year ago (2 children)

LK-99 is allegedly a room temp superconductor.

I think it's a mistake that got amplified by fraud at other locations.

[–] newIdentity@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 year ago

And not everyone was on board of publishing that paper yet (even tough the research has been going on since 1999 - theirfor LK-99)

[–] ultimate_question@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Science x Capitalism

[–] lambda@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Is Korea capitalist?

[–] Axium@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

South Korea is capitalist, North Korea is socialist. People often refer to SK as just Korea either as a statement on the legitimacy of the DPRK or simply because South Korea is far more globally relevant.

[–] CurlyChopz@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Ever heard of "Samsung"

[–] MrMamiya@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago

Excellent, thank you for nailing it!