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Yup, that's me. You're probably wondering how I got here huh?
*VHS tape footage rewinds through entire movie*
*Camera pans into Silicon Valley highschool, You Get What You Give by New Radicals playing in the background*
@FAGFinance@CatfishFishy @CoinRepoMan @stinkumm I’ll be the first to humbly admit he destroyed linkpool and I should have listened. Just being honest with myself.
Maybe because the main focus was on a literal blue haired woke “iconoclast” whose reason for being was to trash the US, take a knee, and denounce their own land despite representing it. And the whole equal pay thing for sports is bullshit. In other fields sure but sports monetization requires attention, eyeballs, and asses in the seat. Considering this “equal pay” is misleading, as the women’s team will be paid far more “per eyeball” than the men’s team. Prove me wrong.
@injusticeinmo2 @normalusguy@ZaleskiLuke Found the guy who likes paying 3x for gas, 50% more for groceries and houses. Basically your retirement account cratered by half if you think about purchasing power.
Because after more than 3 decades of a corrupt political establishment he was the only guy to fall through the Swiss cheese model of 24 hour news mediated debates, rigged primaries and social media consensus cracking chatbots. Maybe instead you should ask yourself what happened to our institutions that allowed a guy like him to succeed so well despite all the headwinds he faced. Perhaps even further you might ask how other highly qualified candidates fare in this institutional paradigm, then hopefully you come to the realization that Trump was a symptom of a corrupt political establishment rather than some cause of corruption. People in the “disenfranchised middle class” are obviously thirsty to be heard and recognized. So maybe the more apt response to this tweet is:
“How do you still not see why Trump was catapulted into the presidency in the first place.”
Then imagine what it would be like if the middle class actually got what they deserved from the system who elected him. All I saw was 4 years of non stop hit pieces and corruption hell bent on destroying him, his family, and everyone in his orbit. Including his voting base.
First video of LK-99 Full Levitation, aka flux-pinning
This video was just posted to the Chinese video-sharing site BiliBili and claims to be a highly pure synthesized sample of LK-99.
What is the physical phenomenon behind this and what does it mean?
Levitation of superconducting materials is a phenomenon unique to what is called Type-II superconductors, and is an effect whereby magnetic field lines becomes 'trapped' as it passes through the material, providing the force needed to levitate. These are the popular images and videos of cryogenically-cooled discs floating above a magnet frequently seen online and in the pinned post on my profile.
You can think of this like strands of hair being caught in gum - the gum is suspended in mid-air by adhering strongly to the hair as the hair passes through it. The hair in this case is magnetic field lines and the gum is the Type-II superconductor. Just like hair comes in individual strands, or in other words hair is 'quantized' or 'discrete', so is the flux trapped at the 'pinning centers' quantized in what are called 'magnetic vortices' - the quantization of pinned flux lines is a key property and distinguishing characteristic of Type-II superconductors (although technically can occur in Type-I superconductors if the material thickness is smaller than the London penetration depth, which is indeed very small - specifics for the physics nerds out there).
Flux-pinning is entirely unique to superconductors and is also wholly distinct from the Meissner effect. It is not a property of diamagnets or diamagnetism.
At @TRIUMFLab I contributed to flux-pinning studies in Niobium crystal superconducting radio-frequency cavities used for particle acceleration. In that application, trapped flux poses an issue by increasing the remnant surface resistivity of the cavity, which has the effect of decreasing its effective quality factor or Q-factor, which is a measurement of a resonators efficiency. SRF cavities typically have Q-factors of 10E10 and trapped flux at pinning centers reduces the maximum effective accelerating electric field used to drive charged particle bunches close to the speed of light.
Flux pinning is thought to arise in some Type-II superconductors by small imperfections in the crystal, also called volume defects, that enable flux to penetrate the material. In SRF cavities an issue that arises is any magnetic field that is passing through the material, e.g. by the Earth's background field, can become pinned or trapped inside the cavity as it transitions into a superconducting state. See some attached plots in the comments from a study showing how the surface resistivity of SRF cavities increases the more there is a background field as the cavity transitions into superconducting state.
This is the first video I am aware of that claims to show the flux-pinned levitation of a LK-99 sample. If this is in fact what is happening, then it is a very unique and promising finding of this new materials properties and potential for future study.
If this is real then it is truly ground-breaking