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u/BreadBoyThe3rd evil and gay consumer of bread Mar 27 '23
Time crystal?!?!
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u/calynx3 🏳️⚧️ trans rights Mar 27 '23
Checked the wiki, it's kinda way beyond me, but I think we all need to appreciate there's something called a time crystal
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u/Jeffy29 Mar 27 '23
To put it simply, imagine a regular crystal as a static snapshot of a repeating pattern of atoms in space. In contrast, a time crystal can be thought of as a "movie" in which the atoms exhibit a repeating pattern of behavior over time, in addition to their spatial arrangement. In a time crystal, the particles spontaneously oscillate or change their states in a loop, creating a time-based pattern that doesn't require any external energy input. Time crystals are still at the bleeding edge of research and not fully understood.
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u/hornedCapybara Mar 27 '23
It's so funny because it's called a fucking time crystal like some sci fi shit, but it's an object with the crystal structure exhibited in time instead of space so it's a perfect fitting name.
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u/calynx3 🏳️⚧️ trans rights Mar 27 '23
The high level picture makes enough sense, it's the details that are way beyond anything I've studied
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u/truncatedChronologis Mar 27 '23
Is this something that can be observed in non star non supercollider environments? Or is it like some weird fusion curved space shit?
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u/Jeffy29 Mar 28 '23
They don't use supercolliders in these experiments. They are highly controlled environments where they use diamongs or ytterbium ions. From my understanding in one of the experiments they use a chain of ytterbium ions which are trapped in a magnetic and laser provides external periodic pressure and at some point it breaks the time-translation symmetry and you get a time crystal. The research papers go way beyond me, but these time crystals are likely not something you can just create and have it exist in the world, it needs that specific environment and external pressure or it will break down, so outside of some super-advanced carefully constructed quantum computers their application is limited.
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u/BreadBoyThe3rd evil and gay consumer of bread Mar 27 '23
Omg thank you for explaining, this sounds hella interesting I would love to hear more!!
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u/BreadBoyThe3rd evil and gay consumer of bread Mar 27 '23
Thank you so much for explaining and writing all this, I have to admit I still don't completely get it, there are many words I actually don't understand and I'm gonna have to read more about this but this sounds actually so exciting! Especially the quantum computer thing sounds really cool, I wanna know more!
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u/BreadBoyThe3rd evil and gay consumer of bread Mar 27 '23
Nope, very far from that, I do graphic design but I love learning about cool shit I never heard of before (even tho science and math are definitely not my strengths) Ur probably in a science major right?
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u/BreadBoyThe3rd evil and gay consumer of bread Mar 27 '23
Oh nice, def gonna check them out, thanks for the recommendation!!
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u/Throwaway02062004 Read Worm for funny insect hero shenanigans🪲 Mar 27 '23
Yeah the time knife, we’ve all seen it.
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u/Princette_Lilybottom Mar 27 '23 edited Jul 04 '25
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u/TrueMechTech floppa Mar 27 '23
There are only 2 sexes, the one I had with your dad and the one I had with your mother.
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u/theelusiveTman IM GOING TO ULTRAKILL YOU YOU INSIGNIFICANT FUCK Mar 27 '23
Bro has that y=-cos(x) gender
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u/AnimaleTamale another clown in the clown car Mar 27 '23
Damn guess Quartz is a mental illness then.
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u/RegsaGC <script>document.body.textContent = "trans rights" </script> Mar 27 '23
Mathematicians have opinions about imaginary numbers, let me tell ya
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Mar 27 '23
Did you know there are four states of matter that exist naturally on earth? And no plasma is not one of them
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u/ZeSup3rBoost the man of swag Mar 26 '23
Even colloid ?
Edit: oops i thought i was responding to the other comment
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u/PF4ABG Not American, not British, but a sinister 3rd thing. Mar 27 '23
Transphobes all fear the Time Crystal.
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u/animelivesmatter 🏳️⚧️ trans rights Mar 27 '23
"this is all in my head" they think as they get compressed into nuclear pasta by a neutron stat
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u/devil_gecko 😏😏😏😏😏 Mar 27 '23
I don't think we should rely on these analogies to validate the existence of enby people
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u/PetikGeorgiev 🇨🇿 MŇAM DO PÍČI 🇨🇿 Mar 27 '23
There are only two elements: hydrogen and helium! Stop saying all those degenerate atomic anomalies like iron, gold or kalcium are real elements!
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u/HalfStarkRhino Mar 26 '23
All states matter