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Fusion? LK-99? Antimatter doesn’t fall up? As the year comes to an end, let’s look back and rank the most incredible Science Breakthroughs of 2023. From the seemingly impossible to the literally impossible!
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NASA Test World’s Most Powerful Ion Engine – https://youtu.be/b4QQ0bYyjME
Toyota’s Solid State Batteries – https://youtu.be/Db-VVJCQ5u4
Wormhole Created in a Quantum Computer – https://youtu.be/NRBygsNCYr0
Double Slit in Time Experiment – https://youtu.be/Ggi1Uf_4tyE
Creating Oxygen On Mars – https://youtu.be/78KCmW7TjmE
Chapters:
0:00 Science Breakthroughs 2023 Tier List
1:10 LK-99 – Scam Or Bad Data?
2:42 The NIF Fusion Breakthroughs
4:46 NASA Test World’s Most Powerful Ion Engine
6:25 Toyota’s Solid State Batteries
7:36 Antimatter Doesn’t Fall Up
8:50 Ozempic and Wegovy
10:13 Wormhole Created in a Quantum Computer
11:13 Ad Read
11:59 First Detection of Background Gravitational Waves
13:29 Double Slit in Time Experiment
14:46 Creating Oxygen On Mars
15:53 The James Webb Space Telescope
17:38 Breakthrough Alzheimer’s Treatment
18:27 First CRISPR Therapy Approved – Sickle Cell
19:31 ChatGPT and A.I Science
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A lot happened in 2023! What was your top science story? Let me know down below 👇
And yes technically quantum wormholes were last year, but they snuck into this year…
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and S tier for you Dr Ben Miles, for finding the best mix between vulgarisation, technicality, and consiveness
I used semaglutide for diabetes and did lose weight, but after 18 months my body no longer responded to it and I regained the weight and had to switch to other diabetes medicines.
Do black holes differ in their physical dimensions… length, width, height? Or are they all the same size and differing masses?
Wow. You covered my year of reading in 21 minutes. Loved it. And I do agree with your tiering
However, I long for a new fundamental discovery
Great video idea!
I've been using Ozenpic for the last 18 months +- and lost about 26Kg. It helps a lot but it just makes the dieting easier. I still had to change my eating habits and reduce/replace the many tasty things I indulged in. Coincidentaly I did a check-up today and my IMC is now normal, my blood pressure is also back to normal, my liver fat is gone, etc. I now need to increase my muscle mass but that's expected. Phase 2 starts in January 🙂
JWST is 100% S Tier!
The Toyota press release really isn’t worth being mentioned. It’s vaporware fluff that Toyota has spouted on multiple occasions over the years, including promising a prototype at the 2020 Olympics that never happened, even with the rescheduling delay to 2021. Not to mention, sometime around 2016, solid-state batteries were already in the Nissan roadmap for manufacturing in the late 2020s.
I would argue LK99 may be F tier but everything around it is S tier – people made big claims, they were tested, and it got proven wrong. No one milked it for funding, no one got their money stolen, no one got really hurt, and some GOOD science methodology got shown. Peer review worked! So, S tier for it showcasing how important the review process is.
That numbering system literally had nothing to do with where you placed anything lol
Nice vid. We live in interesting times.
Dunno if it needs to be up here but brainoware had another recent breakthrough for Organoid intelligence
I think LK-99 should be rated higher, if only because of it's impact on citizen-led science outside of Academia, and bypassing the extremely biased peer-review process.
It may not have been a room temp super-conductor, but the reason you know is because so many people were simultaneously working to replicate the results in their own labs, some even live streaming it.
It was definitely a win in that regard
The medical break throughs really resonate with me. I am mostly excited about them but concerned that only those with great financial means will be able to access them. I find that throughout history our over estimation of the future is largely dictated not by technological capability but by the overwhelming costs involved. I will remain cautiously optimistic that significant medical break throughs will be available to the masses.
You know what's a surefire cure for obesity? Pushing away from the buffet table! DON'T EAT SO MUCH!!
You can tell you love physics and astronomy. Wegovy is A tier, potentially S. Goldman Sachs has a major program to understand the effects of this on many industries. Like huge impact on society, medicine, etc. Maybe you should investigate / research more. The Alzheimer’s breakthrough is D. It doesn’t really work.
AI is a breakthrough like the atom bomb.
Inlightened/matter
Aluminium/ai
I think antimatter should be B or above
solar forcing impacts on earthquakes and volcanos peer reviewed and accepted while pioneering scientists reputations are another clovis culture victim. Get money out of science.
Internal combustion engines will out live all of us.
James Web is the very best of the year, it’s contributions will go on for years.