• Physicists are planning to create time crystals
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[quote]Wilczek’s idea met with a muted response from physicists. Here was a brilliant professor known for developing exotic theories that later entered the mainstream, including the existence of particles called axions and anyons, and discovering a property of nuclear forces known as asymptotic freedom (for which he shared the Nobel Prize in physics in 2004). But perpetual motion, deemed impossible by the fundamental laws of physics, was hard to swallow. Did the work constitute a major breakthrough or faulty logic? Jakub Zakrzewski, a professor of physics and head of atomic optics at Jagiellonian University in Poland who wrote a perspective on the research that accompanied Wilczek’s publication, says: “I simply don’t know.” Now, a technological advance has made it possible for physicists to test the idea. They plan to build a time crystal, not in the hope that this perpetuum mobile will generate an endless supply of energy (as inventors have striven in vain to do for more than a thousand years) but that it will yield a better theory of time itself.[/quote] [url]http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/04/time-crystals/[/url]
Before anyone goes ape spamming science, they are attempting to build one as a proof of concept for a theory.
Wonderful! Now science can bring forth the next part of [IMG]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/19/Timesplitters.JPG/256px-Timesplitters.JPG[/IMG]
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Time crystals eh? When I hear that phrase, I think of E99 from Singularity. Whilst it's a theoretical construct, if it were possible to grow this thing like a crystal, and end up with an actual physical crystal, that would be amazing. Also if time crystals are possible, what would the implications be for science, other that "upending physicists"?
[QUOTE=LoLWaT?;40488287]Won't even be subtle about it huh. We don't have to worry, Vin Diesel will keep us safe.[/QUOTE] Sorry, couldn't think of anything else at the time. Now that I think on it, I could have gone with "It's time to split!"
TIME TO SPLIT
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Better get Cortez on the phone and ready to go!
[QUOTE=ironman17;40488298]Time crystals eh? When I hear that phrase, I think of E99 from Singularity. Whilst it's a theoretical construct, if it were possible to grow this thing like a crystal, and end up with an actual physical crystal, that would be amazing. Also if time crystals are possible, what would the implications be for science, other that "upending physicists"?[/QUOTE] My flux capacitor ran out of time crystals a few months back. Phew, now I can finally get some more and go back to 1985.
Personally I was thinking that the physical kind of time crystal would be the kind that absorbs background radiation and generates light or vibrations; not violating the laws of physics through perpetual motion, but instead making use of the leftover waste energies that permeate the universe.
I love the fact that this theory is actually testable, I hope it works and they can have a small ring of atoms and ions moving in a circle with no input energy.
[QUOTE=Gunkel94;40488294][IMG]http://findlaydonnan.files.wordpress.com/2008/12/800px-resonance_cascade_ayool.jpg?w=740[/IMG][/QUOTE] Oh shit, there's no turning around now. It begins.
it... it's not shutting down!
[QUOTE=spinpoint F3;40489649]it... it's not shutting down![/QUOTE] OH NO!
[quote=Wired]An international team led by Berkeley scientists is preparing an elaborate lab experiment, although it may take “anywhere between three and infinity years” to complete, depending on funding or [b]unforeseen technical difficulties[/b], said Häffner, who is co-principal investigator with Zhang.[/quote] Close enough.
[QUOTE=Mastermind of42;40490134]Close enough.[/QUOTE] Wow, what a short deadline they have set for themselves.
before everyone starts making me feel dumb what the fuck is a time crystal
[QUOTE=endorphinsam;40490256]before everyone starts making me feel dumb what the fuck is a time crystal[/QUOTE] Read the article, it goes into more depth than the synopsis posted by the OP.
[QUOTE=endorphinsam;40490256]before everyone starts making me feel dumb what the fuck is a time crystal[/QUOTE] [quote=the image in the article][img]http://i.imgur.com/WqNWHGQ.png[/img][/quote]
[QUOTE=endorphinsam;40490256]before everyone starts making me feel dumb what the fuck is a time crystal[/QUOTE] [img]http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20080201043053/timesplitters/images/e/e7/Timecyristals.jpg[/img]
[QUOTE=endorphinsam;40490256]before everyone starts making me feel dumb what the fuck is a time crystal[/QUOTE] To explain this rather basically: it's a time crystal.
[QUOTE=endorphinsam;40490256]before everyone starts making me feel dumb what the fuck is a time crystal[/QUOTE] Basically what they do is they take a whole bunch of time, and crush it down, then they crystallise it, and hey presto, time crystal.
Oh boy, here we go... [IMG]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/20/Bioshock_infinite_lutece_twins.jpg[/IMG]
[QUOTE=Ryu-Gi;40493325]Oh boy, here we go... [IMG]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/20/Bioshock_infinite_lutece_twins.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE] the relevance of that had better not be a spoiler you little shit
[QUOTE=endorphinsam;40490256]before everyone starts making me feel dumb what the fuck is a time crystal[/QUOTE] As far as I can gather this is a time based power source? Perpetual (infinite) motion? (of some description) requiring no input power with seemingly infinite output power, potentially.
There is momentum energy of the electrons in their ground states (How else do they continue to go around the atom?) But I don't think they'll the results they want to see at a billionth of a degree kelvin, its absolute zero or nothing. Perhaps they will see such a scenario, either way its fascinating.
Prepare for unforseen consequences.
[QUOTE=whatthe;40501435]As far as I can gather this is a time based power source? Perpetual (infinite) motion? (of some description) requiring no input power with seemingly infinite output power, potentially.[/QUOTE] infinite motion without any power output
please don't change the past plz
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