<story><title>LK-99: Phonon bands, Localized Flat Band Magnetism, Models and Chemical Analysis</title><url>https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ekD2KVV_SUid2wH__o1ODS3hTl1GUFb5/view</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>brucethemoose2</author><text>There have been multiple videos of tiny LK99 specs completely levitating on single magnets, and resisting motion when pushed, and staying afloat when the magnet is inverted.&lt;p&gt;That is not possible in any known material. Unless thats an array of very elaborate fakes, its a RT superconductor.&lt;p&gt;But the simulation papers and conductance tests make me suspect its a topological superconductor that would fail such tests.</text></item><item><author>whatshisface</author><text>Levitation with a corner touching the magnet can be accomplished by iron. It&amp;#x27;s what iron filings do when you put them on a magnet!</text></item><item><author>brucethemoose2</author><text>&amp;gt; We have to have a thorough analysis on the sample directly provided by Lee and Kim.&lt;p&gt;Even this sample could be marginal, going by the original paper.&lt;p&gt;But there has been plenty of &amp;quot;locked&amp;quot; levitation and lots of zero conductance failures. I believe LK-99 a finicky topological superconductor thats going to give researchers headaches for years, not something that will suddenly be a bulk superconductor with just the right synthesis in the coming months.</text></item><item><author>ayakang31415</author><text>As I feared, it is no use at all at this stage to claim anything about LK-99 as every synthesized LK-99 seems different each time. We have to have a thorough analysis on the sample directly provided by Lee and Kim.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lamontcg</author><text>&amp;gt;  There have been multiple videos of tiny LK99 specs completely levitating on single magnets, and resisting motion when pushed, and staying afloat when the magnet is inverted.&lt;p&gt;One of those has already been admitted to being outright faked:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.tomshardware.com&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;lk-99-video-fraud-taken-down&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.tomshardware.com&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;lk-99-video-fraud-taken-do...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>LK-99: Phonon bands, Localized Flat Band Magnetism, Models and Chemical Analysis</title><url>https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ekD2KVV_SUid2wH__o1ODS3hTl1GUFb5/view</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>brucethemoose2</author><text>There have been multiple videos of tiny LK99 specs completely levitating on single magnets, and resisting motion when pushed, and staying afloat when the magnet is inverted.&lt;p&gt;That is not possible in any known material. Unless thats an array of very elaborate fakes, its a RT superconductor.&lt;p&gt;But the simulation papers and conductance tests make me suspect its a topological superconductor that would fail such tests.</text></item><item><author>whatshisface</author><text>Levitation with a corner touching the magnet can be accomplished by iron. It&amp;#x27;s what iron filings do when you put them on a magnet!</text></item><item><author>brucethemoose2</author><text>&amp;gt; We have to have a thorough analysis on the sample directly provided by Lee and Kim.&lt;p&gt;Even this sample could be marginal, going by the original paper.&lt;p&gt;But there has been plenty of &amp;quot;locked&amp;quot; levitation and lots of zero conductance failures. I believe LK-99 a finicky topological superconductor thats going to give researchers headaches for years, not something that will suddenly be a bulk superconductor with just the right synthesis in the coming months.</text></item><item><author>ayakang31415</author><text>As I feared, it is no use at all at this stage to claim anything about LK-99 as every synthesized LK-99 seems different each time. We have to have a thorough analysis on the sample directly provided by Lee and Kim.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>carabiner</author><text>Are any of those from legit research institutions? I know there have been a bunch of fake hover videos in the past 48 hours.</text></comment>