This is exciting, but I try to maintain my composure. Good luck to all involved.
I didn’t know science could be such a thrilling spectator sport.
I didn’t know science could be such a thrilling spectator sport.
Just like they demonstrated all the stuff you know from school over a hundred years ago, before you needed fancy equipment to do anything.
Basically, something which is very unexpected, with potentially large consequences, and which can be done in many labs using discretionary funding.
But I'd also appreciate other links
It's interesting they marked one of the claims as "likely fraudulent" but the guy at the spacebattles one hasn't. The video doesn't seem to be related at all to the 4 samples one, so I'm not sure why they think it's likely fraudulent.
No need to squint into a microscope, parse a screen full of numbers, or try to make sense of false-color renderings. Either you have video proof of a levitating object, or you don't. The demonstration is as intuitive as it gets, despite the fact that the theory is crazy difficult to wrap one's head around.
None of the videos have yet shown complete 'levitation', they all have a corner on the surface. But still, not behavior that anyone has ever seen from lead before.
https://pubs.aip.org/aip/apm/article/9/10/101107/1061600/Pho...
One even did that on the cover of Nature, iirc.
One wit on a different social media site opined that "all technological advances such as plumbing and petrol result in lead poisoning, so perhaps this is real".
Isn’t the introduction of the 4004 in 1971 a better comparison? while that was still 24 years since the Bell labs discovery, we have much better scientific, manufacturing, logistical and mining ecosystems within industry and research today.
If there’s a compelling reason to do so, governments will find ways to accelerate the development of those ecosystems from decades to years (probably more like a decade).
This is a tautological statement if I ever saw one!