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The one wrinkle here is if the sample we saw actually was pyrolytic carbon and someone simply mislabeled a vial when looking for something to shoot the video with.

At the extreme end of big news, stupid things can happen (I've worked in a lab: people suck at labelling things they make).




If it is pyrolytic carbon, they've somehow significantly enhanced the dimagnetism of it, which is remarkable. Usually that stuff only barely floats, and only when it is very thin.


Where would this carbon come from? I think being able to produce an element out of thin air is more impressive than STP superconductors.




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