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For the First Time Ever, Scientists Caught Time Crystals Interacting
from the spacetime-continuum dept.
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."
Posted by BeauHD 5 hours ago
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JEW ANNIHILATOR 4 hours ago
BeauHD's boyfriend Raphael caught BeauHD in the bathroom not playing with the ball stretcher. What a lousy bunch of whining JEWS that run this place now. Hahaha.
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ACHTUNG Slashdot! (+1)
Anonyrnous Canard 2 hours ago
Donald Trump has COVID!
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Uh oh (+1)
93 Escort Wagon 4 hours ago
Last time that happened, the Defiant ended up in orbit around K-7.
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michaelmalak 4 hours ago
No that was a due to a Bajoran orb, these are chronotron particles that will take us to... 2024
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Aighearach 3 hours ago
Oh good, an escape from 2020!!!! Tell me it is better. Please be better.
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dgatwood 3 hours ago
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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Life and Time are the same thing (+2)
rtb61 4 hours ago
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, it exists over time and is not over in an instant. We add the multiverse, forecast into the future, making life choices into the future to extend 'OUR TIME'. The creation of that pocket of slow time in which normal space and time exist, in which time express life and life the quantum consciousness (in scifi talk, quantum tachyon particle fields, infinite small and infinitely fast and infinitely complex relatively speaking, physics here folks, an attempt at reason not fabricating empty beliefs), it creates distortions in quantum space as we alter the path of the present relative to the future where is has already been expressed in quantum space (those interactions already expressed as quantum potential) but now is no more, as by choice we altered the present path to a calculated measurement of the quantum potential already expressed but not yet in normal space and so can be changed.
 A normal element of quantum consciousnesses, the meaning of life, life is a quest for the future, so we reach into the future quantumly speaking to create a future for ourselves and because it is all connected, a living universe we are a part of, a future for that universe, relative to null space and null time, a dead universe is over before it began, a living universe creates infinity relative to itself, whilst starting and finishing in null space. We as a universe, beings of time, strive to keep going, creating a future from the future we can perceive, each to their own ability, some, well, much more than others. Want a story, think 'The Galactic Core, the Lords of Time' a cluster of those good enough and capable enough to mind time over this galaxy, now that's a story to have fun with (no doctor who crap, think beings evolved over billions of more years, how far ahead they can forecast and what tiny changes in their present they can make to alter future outcomes across the entire galaxy across a million years, you know reach out and swat that butterfly before it can flap it's wings and all the rest of us trying to do the same as best we can, a nanosecond into the future for some and many years for others and how accurately and how distorted by desire, with good information bad choices can still be made, wishful thinking).
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LifesABeach 4 hours ago
so now we can watch crystal porn.
as long as they are consenting crystals.
did anybody get a signature
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thegreatbob 4 hours ago
Missed opportunity for an awful haiku:

now watch crystal porn
if crystals are consenting
got a signature?
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rtb61 3 hours ago
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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SecondSkoll 3 hours ago
Are you okay? Is there a medication / drug that you need that you might have taken too much of, or not enough of? I think there might be a reason your post has 420 words. 

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 interesting post-modern ballad.
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Iamthecheese 3 hours ago
Fraudulent ONEness of religious academia has retarded your opposite rationale brain to a half brain slave. YOU IGNORE 3 OF 4 DAYS - FORCE 4 DAYS ON EARTH, THEY ALREADY EXIST. 4 HORSEMEN HAVE 4 DAYS IN ONLY 1 EARTH ROTATION. 4 ANGLES STOOD ON 4 CORNERS. 4 CORNERS ROTATE TO 16 CORNERS WHICH EQUAL TO 4 CORNER DAYS. TEACHERS ARE EVIL LIARS - THE ONEness OF GOD IS STILLness DEATH. YOU WERE ONEness RETARD ON THE EARTH OPPOSITES ALL YOUR LIFE. LOVE OF GOD IS HATE OF CHILDREN. SUPPORT TIMECUBE OR BE CURSED. EARTH HAS 4 CORNER SIMULTANEOUS 4-DAY TIME CUBE WITHIN SINGLE ROTATION. 4 CORNER DAYS PROVES 1 DAY 1 GOD IS TAUGHT EVIL. IGNORANCE OF TIMECUBE4 SIMPLE MATH IS RETARDATION AND EVIL EDUCATION DAMNATION. CUBELESS AMERICANS DESERVE - AND SHALL BE CELEBRATED.
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Gravis Zero 3 hours ago
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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dgatwood 3 hours ago
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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Darinbob 2 hours ago
Can you express your theory in the form of a cube?
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Well, DUUUuuuuh (+1)
Aighearach 3 hours ago
If you think something "exists," you might already have claimed it interacts.
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How do you (+1)
future assassin 2 hours ago
contract and test positive for a deep state hoax?
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Okay ... (+1)
fahrbot-bot 23 minutes ago
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 is about to show up and send them to time prison.
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Baffle them with technobabble.... (+1)
Malays2 bowman 11 minutes ago
"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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Something I've noticed (+1)
Malays2 bowman a minute ago
When a pseudoscientific article like this is posted on Slashdot, it becomes the trolls' playground.
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