Will the main LK-99 market trade above 50%, if the market about the supposed LK-99 flux pinning video resolves YES?
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Resolves to YES if the main market trades above 50% (YES>50%) exactly one hour after the flux pinning video market gets resolved to YES.

Resolves to NO if if the main market trades below or equal to 50% (YES<=50%) at that time-point.

Resolves N/A if the flux pinning video market gets resolved to NO or N/A.

The supposed LK-99 flux pinning video market:

https://manifold.markets/chrisjbillington/is-the-latest-video-of-a-supposed-s

The main LK-99 market:

https://manifold.markets/QuantumObserver/will-the-lk99-room-temp-ambient-pre

Will the LK-99 room temp, ambient pressure superconductivity pre-print replicate before 2025?
39% chance. Preprint here: https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.12008 Companion paper here with description of synthesis: https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.12037 Update 2023-07-27: Pasting my comment on resolution criteria We're clearly all here because a) it's fun, and b) we're interested in room temperature superconductivity, not whether some other experimental group gets the same kinda sus data as the original paper. So, when I write 'replicate' in the question I am specifically asking: is the room temperature, ambient pressure superconductivity of the compound LK-99 convincingly demonstrated? Specifically, replications should convincingly demonstrate: Zero DC electrical resistivity (or something close enough if the measurement is AC). A phase change*, which is usually exhibited as a sharp discontinuity in the heat capacity. The Meissner effect (magnetic fields expelled). If synthesizing the compound, there should be evidence that they did make something essentially the same as what is reported in the original paper. 2) has an asterisk because @BenjaminShindel suggests that a phase change might not be required for a quantum well superconductor. I think I see how this could be the case. Willing to adjust this criterion after receiving more info from relevant theorists/experimentalists. I don't intend to require that replications be published in a peer-reviewed journal. The arXiv is sufficient for me. However, I do intend to wait a few weeks/months to resolve so that any pre-print can be adequately investigated for data manipulation, fraud, etc. In my utopia, labs that claim to have confirmed/disconfirmed this effect would also publish their raw data with their arXiv submissions, but I'm not holding my breath. Since high Tc superconductivity is not my specific field of expertise, I'm willing to defer to a consensus of subject matter experts on whether a pre-print is convincing or not, and I am willing to contact some beyond the usual twitter personalities.
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@JubileeYoung My hypothesis is simple: both hope and despair are more durable than that.

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