I have been very cautious on any analysis on LK99 - especially my own.
I have mentioned to many people that any potential application of this stuff comes with an 'if it is real'. That IF is doing a lot of heavy lifting and it has to be emphasized.
I want this to be a thing, but it doesn't matter how much you want something to be true, it actually HAS to be true.
A beautiful elegant idea can be crushed by a single ugly dirty truth.
These past two weeks, a whole bunch of people who purportedly read all the original LK-99 papers and data and understand the science, swore up and down that the superconductor breakthrough was essentially in the bag, and that we were only waiting for replication
There's a concept (presented as a contrast to "objective truth" and "subjective truth") called "intersubjective truth", which refers to ideas that are true because (and only to the extent that) a quorum of people believe they are true. Money, contracts and laws are all only words on a piece of paper in objective value. I can generate all of them myself, but unless other people start to treat them as if they are real they'll have all the power of words on paper. On the other hand, if a system arises where people believe those things are true and have value it can be used to build extraordinary things.
Political systems are full of intersubjectivity (they mostly boil down to "groups of people coordinating societal resources, with the consent of enough of the governed"), so of course politics is an arena where "enough people believe this thing" is sufficient to generate truth.
I have mentioned to many people that any potential application of this stuff comes with an 'if it is real'. That IF is doing a lot of heavy lifting and it has to be emphasized.
I want this to be a thing, but it doesn't matter how much you want something to be true, it actually HAS to be true.
A beautiful elegant idea can be crushed by a single ugly dirty truth.