Beijing Superconductor (LK-99) Levitation Video Author Admits Fraud, Takes it Down::The author of one of the Billibilli videos posted as proof of LK-99’s levitation capabilities has admitted that his posting was a hoax.

  • FuglyDuck@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    So… how much ya wanna bet this guy faked up the video to secure/maintain funding, and didn’t quite realize how far it’d go ….

    … and back tracked as soon as they realized there was about to be a shitload of scrutiny.

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      1 year ago

      I should release my paper about how I turned lead into gold. Nobody would care about that one, right?

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        1 year ago

        well, it’s already been done. (well, that may not be what’s going on in the article, but the particle accelerators have created gold… by doing their smashy-smashy thing)(I’m sure the physicists love it when we reduce decades of their work to sounding like toddlers smacking stuff together to see what happens… it’s really grown up serious science!)