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It’s real, it works, the Navy has a linked patent from 2017. The UFOs are a PSYOP.

declan_roberts 3y ago
The Navy does have a patent for a “lead zirconate titanate” super conductor which does sound awfully similar to what’s described in LK-99. https://phys.org/news/2019-02-navy-patent-room-temperature-superconductor.amp https://phys.org/news/2019-02-navy-patent-room-temperature-s...
- progrus 3y ago
  Ding ding.
- FrustratedMonky 3y ago
  Man. I hope it isn't. That would be sad, all this was happening, and nobody had found the old study. Surely not.
- unsupp0rted 3y ago
  > The application claims that a room-temperature superconductor can be built using a wire with an insulator core and an aluminum PZT (lead zirconate titanate) coating deposited by vacuum evaporation with a thickness of the London penetration depth and polarized after deposition. > An electromagnetic coil is circumferentially positioned around the coating such that when the coil is activated with a pulsed current, a non-linear vibration is induced, enabling room temperature superconductivity.
- drtgh 3y ago
  From the same author https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2019-0869 https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2019-0869 , 2019 Salvatore Cezar Pais > It is important for the PZT coating to undergo a polarizing (poling) treatment prior to RTSC enablement, so that optimal domain alignment is obtained within the ceramic coating, by subjecting the coating to a strong dc current electric field, slightly below the Curie temperature (approx.200 0C, but possibly as high as 360 0C, depending on PZT ceramic composition). Furthermore, to increase the probability of vibration in one particular direction, as well as to alleviate the brittle nature of the ceramic material, it may be necessary to make the 'metallic' wire coating out of a composite PZT and highly conductive polymer, such as p-Terphenyl [4]. Another option is to sandwich the PZT ceramic in between two layers of aluminum, resulting in a wire design which may be planar rather than cylindrical in nature. This composite coating design would amplify piezoelectrically-induced vibrations and possibly render them unidirectional. From LK99 rumors: > At the beginning of 2020, Ji-Hoon Kim continued to do experiments as usual, suddenly he found a huge peak, he repeated the test + looked at his notes. But didn't find any special points. He started looking through the lab videos. He finally realized that the tube of sample came out with cracks on the quartz tube, and he hit his elbow on the table while transferring the sample out to the electronic scale. Introducing oxygen at the right moment + a violent impact would change the structure of the lead apatite crystals being formed. May be something, may be nothing, S.C.Pais: "to increase the probability of vibration in one particular direction" S.C.Pais: "piezoelectrically-induced vibrations [ and possibly render them unidirectional]" LK99: "oxygen at the right moment + violent impact would change the structure of the lead apatite crystals being formed"
  - yreg 3y ago
    This person has an absurd patent track record https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvatore_Pais https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvatore_Pais
- adrian_b 3y ago
  Except for the fact that both materials contain lead, there is no resemblance. Lead is one of the best superconductors among pure metals, whose superconductivity has been already discovered 110 years ago, in 1913. Nevertheless, there is absolutely no relationship between the superconductivity of pure lead and the alleged superconductivity of lead zirconate titanate and the alleged superconductivity of lead phosphate doped with copper. They have very different crystal structures and behaviors of the free electrons (i.e. electronic band structures). Only if in the PZT samples used by the Navy there would have been some impurities, without the knowledge of the researchers, causing contraction of the crystal when substituting the big lead atoms, then there would have been a similar mechanism to what is claimed now. If this mechanism is proven to really work, then it could also work in other crystals with big ions, like lead or baryum, perhaps even in PZT.

The Navy does have a patent for a “lead zirconate titanate” super conductor which does sound awfully similar to what’s described in LK-99. https://phys.org/news/2019-02-navy-patent-room-temperature-superconductor.amp https://phys.org/news/2019-02-navy-patent-room-temperature-s...

progrus 3y ago
Ding ding.
FrustratedMonky 3y ago
Man. I hope it isn't. That would be sad, all this was happening, and nobody had found the old study. Surely not.
unsupp0rted 3y ago
> The application claims that a room-temperature superconductor can be built using a wire with an insulator core and an aluminum PZT (lead zirconate titanate) coating deposited by vacuum evaporation with a thickness of the London penetration depth and polarized after deposition. > An electromagnetic coil is circumferentially positioned around the coating such that when the coil is activated with a pulsed current, a non-linear vibration is induced, enabling room temperature superconductivity.
drtgh 3y ago
From the same author https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2019-0869 https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2019-0869 , 2019 Salvatore Cezar Pais > It is important for the PZT coating to undergo a polarizing (poling) treatment prior to RTSC enablement, so that optimal domain alignment is obtained within the ceramic coating, by subjecting the coating to a strong dc current electric field, slightly below the Curie temperature (approx.200 0C, but possibly as high as 360 0C, depending on PZT ceramic composition). Furthermore, to increase the probability of vibration in one particular direction, as well as to alleviate the brittle nature of the ceramic material, it may be necessary to make the 'metallic' wire coating out of a composite PZT and highly conductive polymer, such as p-Terphenyl [4]. Another option is to sandwich the PZT ceramic in between two layers of aluminum, resulting in a wire design which may be planar rather than cylindrical in nature. This composite coating design would amplify piezoelectrically-induced vibrations and possibly render them unidirectional. From LK99 rumors: > At the beginning of 2020, Ji-Hoon Kim continued to do experiments as usual, suddenly he found a huge peak, he repeated the test + looked at his notes. But didn't find any special points. He started looking through the lab videos. He finally realized that the tube of sample came out with cracks on the quartz tube, and he hit his elbow on the table while transferring the sample out to the electronic scale. Introducing oxygen at the right moment + a violent impact would change the structure of the lead apatite crystals being formed. May be something, may be nothing, S.C.Pais: "to increase the probability of vibration in one particular direction" S.C.Pais: "piezoelectrically-induced vibrations [ and possibly render them unidirectional]" LK99: "oxygen at the right moment + violent impact would change the structure of the lead apatite crystals being formed"
- yreg 3y ago
  This person has an absurd patent track record https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvatore_Pais https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvatore_Pais
adrian_b 3y ago
Except for the fact that both materials contain lead, there is no resemblance. Lead is one of the best superconductors among pure metals, whose superconductivity has been already discovered 110 years ago, in 1913. Nevertheless, there is absolutely no relationship between the superconductivity of pure lead and the alleged superconductivity of lead zirconate titanate and the alleged superconductivity of lead phosphate doped with copper. They have very different crystal structures and behaviors of the free electrons (i.e. electronic band structures). Only if in the PZT samples used by the Navy there would have been some impurities, without the knowledge of the researchers, causing contraction of the crystal when substituting the big lead atoms, then there would have been a similar mechanism to what is claimed now. If this mechanism is proven to really work, then it could also work in other crystals with big ions, like lead or baryum, perhaps even in PZT.