For the First Time Ever, Scientists Caught Time Crystals Interacting (popularmechanics.com) 51
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Popular Mechanics: For the first time, scientists have observed an interaction of a rare and baffling form of matter called time crystals. The crystals look at a glance like "regular" crystals, but they have a relationship to time that both intrigues and puzzles scientists because of its unpredictability. Now, experts say they could have applications in quantum computing. [...] Researchers say they've collided two time crystals to see what happens next. "Our results demonstrate that time crystals obey the general dynamics of quantum mechanics and offer a basis to further investigate the fundamental properties of these phases, opening pathways for possible applications in developing fields, such as quantum information processing," they explain in a new paper.
In their experiments, they placed two time crystals in superfluid and mixed magnons between them. Magnons are a magnetic quasiparticle that, in this case, led to "opposite-phase oscillations," while the crystals themselves stayed phase stable. What's cool (and, literally, supercooled) is how the matter acts within predictable quantum mechanical ways despite the central quality of wild oscillation patterns over time. "Before this, nobody had observed two time crystals in the same system, let alone seen them interact," lead author Samuli Autti, of Lancaster University, said in a statement. "Controlled interactions are the number one item on the wish list of anyone looking to harness a time crystal for practical applications, such as quantum information processing."
In their experiments, they placed two time crystals in superfluid and mixed magnons between them. Magnons are a magnetic quasiparticle that, in this case, led to "opposite-phase oscillations," while the crystals themselves stayed phase stable. What's cool (and, literally, supercooled) is how the matter acts within predictable quantum mechanical ways despite the central quality of wild oscillation patterns over time. "Before this, nobody had observed two time crystals in the same system, let alone seen them interact," lead author Samuli Autti, of Lancaster University, said in a statement. "Controlled interactions are the number one item on the wish list of anyone looking to harness a time crystal for practical applications, such as quantum information processing."
Uh oh (Score:4, Funny)
Last time that happened, the Defiant ended up in orbit around K-7.
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Oh good, an escape from 2020!!!! Tell me it is better. Please be better.
Re:Uh oh (Score:5, Funny)
Donald Trump is emperor, but it's okay, because he's really just a puppet with his head impaled on the tentacle of the leader of our alien overlords.
On the plus side, the murder hornets are dead. On the minus side, so are the honeybees and butterflies and most of the plants, so everyone pretty much Swiftly eats the homeless.
The good news is that the Zorg'aal (our alien overlords) only eat about 0.1% of all the people on Earth every year, so 99.9% survive the aliens every year (the homeless notwithstanding). Such a low death rate is really no big deal, and totally worth it to defend our right not to wear deodorant. (Deodorant, of course, kills the Zorg'all when they try to feed on you, but why would anyone want to smell like they're scared?)
Anyway, I hear that China is planning to try some other approach for exterminating the Zorg'aal. I think they called it some kind of winter... new something... new clear winter, maybe? It's supposed to be a blast. We'll see.
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You forgot the useless population zones in San Francisco.
And who turned on the filters against anonymous cowards and ascii art?
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I don't know, but whenever I try to quote anything from the Simpsons longer than D'Oh! it thinks it is ascii art.
I'm totally gonna have a cow.
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This is the first glimpse of Dilithium crystals!
"Dilithium is depicted as an extremely hard crystalline mineral that occurs naturally on some planets. It is believed that this material exists in more than three dimensions at the same time and this is somehow related to its properties. When placed in a high-frequency electromagnetic field, eddy currents are induced in its structure which keep charged particles away from the crystal lattice."
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EXACTLY the comment I came to make, except mine was just a vague memory from a novel that gave it a four dimensional structure, with extensions into the future and the past, thus enhancing the eddy effect and allowing one to form a "warp field" that can be used to achieve >100% engine efficency.
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And as a side effect of that four-dimensional structure, dilithium crystals need to be cut at the exact moment yesterday, today, and tomorrow in order to shape them. Which makes them really rare.
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as long as they are consenting crystals.
did anybody get a signature
Re:Life and Time are the same thing (Score:4, Funny)
now watch crystal porn
if crystals are consenting
got a signature?
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Did you ask those cells, in your nether for their permission before abusing them and shortening their live and denying so many others their life function ;P. As a connected universe why would you ask permission of yourself, does you toe demand your eye ask permission to look at it, each to their function and capability. Keep in mind in whose garden you likely are and be hopeful they are not as egoistic as you ;D.
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and i take pictures of them slowly moving up and down and over and over again.
cool.
i think i have some new porn to sell to my stand down and stand back bros.
the rent will be paid this month
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I seem to have failed to go down the rabbit hole with you. Life only measures time insofar as we created the concept of time as a measurement of a dimension. Life only measures time if life also measures everything else. I'm not sure life is keeping that close an eye on my waistline. Though I will admit, your post does make an interestin
Re: Life and Time are the same thing (Score:2)
It's got to be a script, and people mod it up because they think it's funny.
Or it's a real person going through a mental health crisis and people mod them up because they think it's funny.
Or ... a troll with a couple alt accounts.
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Time expresses life and life measures time, life creates time, life interacts with time and life records time. It is inherent to this living universe...
Dude, your Time Cube website was awesome! Way to fool everyone in to thinking your were dead by leaving behind your body. Very neat trick!
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Turns out he just faked his death so that he could start his run for public office three months later. Suddenly, Tuesday's debate makes perfect sense. There were really four debates going on simultaneously.
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Can you express your theory in the form of a cube?
Well, DUUUuuuuh (Score:2)
If you think something "exists," you might already have claimed it interacts.
The same way (Score:2)
You get a post on the wrong thread to still be funny.
Okay ... (Score:5, Funny)
In their experiments, they placed two time crystals in superfluid and mixed magnons between them. Magnons are a magnetic quasiparticle that, in this case, led to "opposite-phase oscillations," while the crystals themselves stayed phase stable.
Now they're just making stuff up. If not, then Shleemypants [fandom.com] is about to show up and send them to time prison.
Baffle them with technobabble.... (Score:2, Funny)
"In their experiments, they placed two time crystals in [bullshit]superfluid and mixed [bullshit]magnons between them. [bullshit]Magnons are a magnetic [bullshit]quasiparticle that, in this case, led to "opposite-phase oscillations," while the crystals themselves stayed phase stable"
How much funding did they get for this again? :\
If only the person responsible for inventing ST-Voyager's "particle of the week" thought of getting into this art of scamming....
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Re: Baffle them with technobabble.... (Score:2)
And that's where they get you. Using words that seem like plausable scientific terms, and writing that appears on the surface to be scientificaly sound, in order to get the layman to believe that what they are talking about is legit.
Kind of like those "Ion braclets", which I hope to $DIETY were not actually laced with ionizing radioactive material. I wouldn't put it past those scam artists to do just that incase somebody decided to check those things out with a dosimeter.
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But, I read over the article and was able to understand the concept. I don't think I'd be able to relate it accurately, however. I do think 'time crystal' is a poor choice and is overly clickbaity.
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I thought they were made up but apparent time crystals are real things: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]
Re: Baffle them with technobabble.... (Score:2)
It;s kind of ironic that what sounds like the most silly, fake term used in the article turns out to be legit.
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Yes it does look like a hoax.
However, remember this is PopMech: this might be a legit experiment, the description of which is mangled beyond recognition by the magazine to impress the kind of crowd who buys it.
Something I've noticed (Score:2)
When a pseudoscientific article like this is posted on Slashdot, it becomes the trolls' playground.
What on earth was that about? (Score:1)
I started reading the article, and it looked like made up jargon soup. I gave up. It is on a par with the astrology that a friend of mine posts on Facebook. Time crystals? Somebody has been watching Doctor Who under the influence of mind altering substances.
There are plenty of genuine science and mathematics ideas that I cannot get my head around, but this just looked like straight fiction, with a bit of fact thrown in to hold it together.
Why are time crystals unpredictable? (Score:1)
'... The crystals look at a glance like "regular" crystals, but they have a relationship to time that both intrigues and puzzles scientists because of its unpredictability. ...'
I thought the thing about crystals was their regularity.
ffs stop calling them time crystals (Score:1)
So stop calling it a time crystal, or we get God-particle-like discussions.
Whoo time crystals, spooky.
ffs.
Dr Who reference? (Score:2)
Was this article generated by a machine for 1 April but the time crystals switched it to now?
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Non-stick cookware (Score:2)
The scientists are arguing about nomenclature, while the Koreans are producing nonstick cookware coated in crystals that make sense in 5D but not in 4D. Nobody really understands it, but the eggs slide off the pan.
Another Experiment (Score:4, Funny)
Now let's replace the Time Crystals with Folger's Crystals and see if they notice the difference!
Crazy, not stupid. (Score:1)
found the link to their original paper:
https://www.atomic-robo.com/at... [atomic-robo.com]
At last (Score:2)
Old News (Score:2)
This has been well covered as early as 1948 in "The Endochronic Properties of Resublimated Thiotimoline"
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]
The summary reads like something from Gene Ray. (Score:2)
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Just another way to boil water (Score:2)
"collided two time crystals to see what happens next"
- We don't know what these things are, how they work, or why they exist.
- Have you tried smashing them together?
- Great idea!
I wonder how research will be done in the future -- you know, when it's done by people who didn't grow up smacking the shit out of their televisions to improve reception.
I want funding too! (Score:2)
Introducing the hyper quantum firrometal drive
The quantum flux of the hyristerin quadrophonicsuperparticle is modulated to the square root of the veeritorn field and divided into syrixion channels which are hyperaccelerated into a parallel mobius with double inverted phases and massaged with a tripple helix forntern field. This allows travel through space at any distance and to any place, which only takes a few milliseconds regardless.
How could you NOT fund my research?
Thiotimoline? (Score:2)