/sci/ - Science & Math

>>15641027
LK-99 has market projections already.

Economists are like decades ahead of the actual scientists trying to make this shit.

High end scenario, LK-99 has a market impact of 4 trillion.

Low end scenario, LK-99 has a market impact of 1.5 trillion.

Most likely outcome though, is that LK-99 itself will be vaporware.

However, the basic science behind LK-99 may lead to the ACTUAL breakthrough, so in that sense LK-99 has a derivative market value that hasn't been outright determined yet.

Due to the lowballing of the vaporware possibility, economists have already moved around roughly $500 billion in anticipatory investments, that assume either LK-99 MIGHT pan out, OR LK-99's study will lead to an actual room temp superconductor.
See pic related.

It's wrong about the oxygen being every other layer, it's in every layer as is, but improving the "squeezing" by the lead layers by replacing them with graphene may actually be something we end up doing for a legitimate room temp superconductor.

>>15636224
LK-99 Diagram for Idiots who want to understand how this is currently theorized to work, from a laymen perspective.
(This is best if you know at least basic chemistry/physics. But a complete tard to the subject should get the basis of why this compound is a little weird.)