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Interesting that the video of levitation isn't mentioned at all in this rebuttal.

Assuming the scientists acted in good faith and this isn't a complete scam, maybe we found something else that doesn't conform to our current understanding of superconductors, but does levitate over a magnetic field at ambient temp/pressure.




The video of “levitation” is one of the things that makes me, a complete ignoramus of the subject matter, skeptical.

https://sciencecast.org/casts/suc384jly50n

All other instances of “quantum levitation” that I have seen has a “locked in” effect: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ws6AAhTw7RA .

Whereas the material in this video seems to bounce and warble in a way that appears to me more akin to standard static or magnetic repulsion.

Hope I’m wrong.


One response to the levitation video is that it is hard to distinguish from a non-superconductive diamagnetic effect, which can occur even in not very exotic materials.

There are videos of graphite levitating that are circulating, for example.


Not true. The graphite needs two magnets, not one like in the video.




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