Agodichi Technologies Inc.

..unveiling magic;
Founded 2022 by @AgodichiOkorie

[World of Engineering @engineers_feed]

"A rocket will never be able to leave Earth's atmosphere."
-New York Times, 1936

[Curiosity @CuriosityonX]

What would you do in this situation?

[Black Hole @konstructivizm]

There has to be life on one of these dots.

[ARCHIVED NASA Exoplanets @NASAExoplanets]

5,496!
That's how many planets we've confirmed beyond our own solar system. Some may have rubies blowing in winds, others may have broken glass. Some are so hot, molecules can't survive. Others are so cold, everything is locked in a deep freeze. Each is just right in its own way. https://t.co/skYC1dfAXq

[Beyond Tomorrow @OrgPhysics]

In 2019, The International Space Station spotted an exotic type of upside-down lightning called a blue jet, which was zipping up from a thundercloud into the stratosphere 😱

[World of Engineering @engineers_feed]

“Engineers ... are not mere technicians and should not approve or lend their name to any project that does not promise to be beneficent to man and the advancement of civilization.”
- John Fowler

[Prakash @8teAPi]

LK99 Korean Paper - April 18 2023

- only peer reviewed paper
- submitted to Korean Crystal Growth Journal
- starts off with a dig at theoretical physicists 😂 in favor of inorganic chemists 😛 . Physcels could never
- 6 authors, Lee, Kim, Kwon, no Hyun Tak

Explains history
- 1999 -> Lee and Kim find a recipe that produces a blip when they measure magnetic properties using a super sensitive sensor, the SQUID, superconducting quantum inference device, but they fail to manufacture enough of the material to isolate the structure
- 2017 -> they repeat the experiments, until the quartz tube is destroyed due to rapid cooling. They find a unknown lump with funky magnetic properties
- Kwon tries to use Electron Spin Resonance, taking an MRI of the electrons in the material, but concentration is still too low to make any progress
- 2019 -> they identify the likely material
- 2021 -> they isolate the substance and perform structural analysis and file a patent

Manufacture
- the paper states the simple heating/cooling sequence of 4 precursors to the final material
- JUMPS
- how annoying, the paper jumps from making a lump to measuring a thin film… yup that’s right, they measure a concentrated, cleanedup, vapor deposited product.. while disclosing how to make a dirty low conc chunk
- all their measurements show superconductivity in THIN FILM

Ending
- they invite other people to do the academic work from their disclosures, as given they are a business they will focus on patenting and products
- speculate on use cases -> Hyperloop, high efficiency motors, MRI, quantum computing

So basically there’s a huge gap in the manufacturing process disclosed in the scientific papers.

[Brett Adcock @adcock_brett]

The electric aircraft company I founded in 2018 raised $215M yesterday.

Investors include Boeing, Stellantis, United Airlines.

Posting the investor slide deck:

[World of Engineering @engineers_feed]

“Engineering refers to the practice of organizing the design and construction [and, I would add operation] of any artifice which transforms the physical world around us to meet some recognized need.”
- G.F.C. Rogers

[Mark Nelson @energybants]

China's just out here building their SMRs.

They just inserted the beating heart of their first 125MW system. They're calling it "Linglong" (Nimble Dragon).

They're good at building small reactors because they're good at building large reactors.

Construction started July 2021.

[Robin Hanson @robinhanson]

Not good: "72% of voters prefer slowing down the development of AI … 86% of voters believe AI could accidentally cause a catastrophic event, and 70% agree that mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority … voters support a federal agency regulating AI by a more than 3:1 margin"
https://t.co/gfArBq5mvS

[Agodichi Technologies Inc. @AgodichiTechInc]

@latestinspace in adding top & bottom rows, we get the value of the middle;

i.e.

column 1: tc (3) + bc (2) = mc (5)
column 3: tc (2) + bc (4) = mc (6)

as such..

column 2: tc (1) + bc (3) = mc (4)

*tc = top cell
*bc = bottom cell
*mc = middle cell

[Casey Handmer @CJHandmer]

The thing I find super exciting about LK-99 is that we *know* electrons can be made to do all sorts of "unnatural" things if we give them the right electric potential (eg computation, diffraction, conduction, lasers, all the quantum stuff), and materials science gives us essentially infinite canvas to play with.

No idea whether LK-99 is actually a room temperature superconductor, but I am 100% sure that *some* configuration of atoms will enable RTSC. All we have to do is map the steps to high volume high yield manufacturing of the easiest element in the set of materials that do this.

This set forms the overlap of allowable configurations of matter, and the set of electric potential variations that enable superconductivity.

Unfortunately neither set is very well mapped, not helped by the fact that they are both extremely infinite and high dimensional.

Whether or not LK-99 is an RTSC, its magnetic properties are weird and unexpected *and* there is a replicable method to make small but macroscopic quantities of it. The gold rush for different kinds of related materials has already begun.

[World of Engineering @engineers_feed]

An engineer's life isn't complex, it's binary.

[Latest in space @latestinspace]

NEWS 🚨: A newly built AI system has found a ‘potentially hazardous’ near-Earth asteroid that astronomers missed

It's expected to pass within half the distance between Earth and the Moon

[World of Engineering @engineers_feed]

“Engineering problems are under-defined, there are many solutions, good, bad and indifferent. The art is to arrive at a good solution. This is a creative activity, involving imagination, intuition and deliberate choice.”
- Ove Arup

[Alex Kaplan @alexkaplan0]

It's as close to official as we'll probably get: LK-99 is likely simply a ferromagnetic material, which explains its levitating properties, according to new research from Peking University.

The room temperature superconductivity revolution will have to wait another day.

[Brian Greene @bgreene]

The new claim of superconductivity at ordinary temperatures and pressures would be--if true--an utterly revolutionary breakthrough...but history in this arena suggests extreme skepticism until it's thoroughly vetted and confirmed.

[Phys.org @physorg_com]

Korean team claims to have created the first room-temperature, ambient-pressure superconductor @arxiv https://t.co/gHYv8P6hpL https://t.co/GaP4OtWlUV