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it's not confusing, it's just silly, the Iron Age ended over 2000 years ago, so there were just no ages between the birth of Christ and LK-99?



None which are generally accepted by historians that happen to be named after a single substance:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-age_system


That's only for prehistory.

In any case it's a pretty silly contrivance, how about the oil age? or the silicon age? Both of those are likely to remain more impactful than the LK-99 age, in the event that it does turn out to be an ambient temp/pressure superconductor.


If replicated, those are gonna be footnotes to LK-99 and its likely many derivatives and close cousins.




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