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Microsoft thinks time crystals may be viable after all... Movement without energy?
The Register ^ | Sep 12, 2016 | Katyanna Quach

Posted on 09/12/2016 5:02:41 PM PDT by dayglored

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To: Gadsden1st

I hope they are not planning to put these crystals in the same box as that cat.
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ROLLING otflmo!


21 posted on 09/12/2016 5:21:51 PM PDT by JT Hatter (Who is Barack Obama? And What is He Really Up To?)
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To: Gadsden1st

I hope they are not planning to put these crystals in the same box as that cat.
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ROLLING otflmao!


22 posted on 09/12/2016 5:22:12 PM PDT by JT Hatter (Who is Barack Obama? And What is He Really Up To?)
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To: dayglored

They gave H-1 visas to a group of Sleestaks. Good move. Can’t find that kinda help in America.


23 posted on 09/12/2016 5:22:22 PM PDT by Eddie01 (Democrats are the Liquidate America Party)
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To: dayglored

With Microsoft involved, that would be The Dark Crystal.


24 posted on 09/12/2016 5:24:50 PM PDT by GingisK
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To: dayglored
Dark Crystals perhaps?


25 posted on 09/12/2016 5:30:07 PM PDT by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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To: Fester Chugabrew

They say, “Time flies” but you can’t; they pass at too irregular intervals.


26 posted on 09/12/2016 5:31:33 PM PDT by imardmd1 (Fiat Lux)
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To: GingisK

It took me an extra 5 minutes to find a picture LOL


27 posted on 09/12/2016 5:31:49 PM PDT by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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To: dayglored

I read someplace where a guy is using a laser to listen to background sounds recorded in ancient pottery ,kind of like a record


28 posted on 09/12/2016 5:33:37 PM PDT by butlerweave
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To: dangerdoc

“a flying car, they promised me a flying car”

No flying car, but autonomous cars are coming along very nicely. They are almost as good, most ways. Better, in many ways.


29 posted on 09/12/2016 5:33:45 PM PDT by marktwain
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To: dayglored

The Physics Department at UCSB is well known for its basic research in quantum computing.

Presumably, Microsoft provides financial support to UCSB and also has corporate researchers working on software for quantum computing.


30 posted on 09/12/2016 5:34:46 PM PDT by zeestephen
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To: marktwain

How can a car that cannot fly be almost as good or better than one that can? That’s apples and oranges.

Like saying that corvette is better in many ways than that cessna.


31 posted on 09/12/2016 5:42:52 PM PDT by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: dayglored

Well I guess it beats spending money on American software engineers who write solid code ...


32 posted on 09/12/2016 5:45:15 PM PDT by SecondAmendment (Restoring our Republic at 9.8357x10^8 FPS)
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To: rockrr

OK then. Get that sucker posted.


33 posted on 09/12/2016 5:45:24 PM PDT by GingisK
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To: rockrr

Outstanding! I couldn’t find that one.


34 posted on 09/12/2016 5:46:15 PM PDT by GingisK
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To: dayglored

Very interesting but it’s purely theoretical at this point, not a scientific discovery as initially hinted by the article.

Guess it could give a boost to new age shops selling magnets and crystals, apparently they do have unique properties after all ;-)


35 posted on 09/12/2016 5:47:40 PM PDT by opus1 (This is all getting rather confusing.)
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To: dp0622

A flying car can get you places faster.

An autonomous car allows you to sleep why getting there, effectively using time that you would have spent driving.

A flying car avoids congestion on the roads.

An autonomous car avoids congestion through superior knowledge of whats ahead.

There are problems that both approaches solve, in different ways.


36 posted on 09/12/2016 5:49:54 PM PDT by marktwain
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There are problems that both approaches solve, in different ways....

A nice Apache gets you past the congestion in great fun and then can be used to clear a place to land. With features like that, autonomous is not that inviting.

37 posted on 09/12/2016 5:56:08 PM PDT by GingisK
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To: GingisK
"A nice Apache gets you past the congestion in great fun"

Thanks for the visual, it gave me a healthy laugh!

38 posted on 09/12/2016 6:04:53 PM PDT by W. (Trump's here to kick ass or chew bubblegum, and he's all out of gum!)
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To: dayglored
“For almost every symmetry imaginable, there is a model whose ground state breaks it:crystals break the continuous translational and rotational symmetries of Coulomb interactions; magnetically ordered materials break time-reversal symmetry and spin symmetry, and superfluids break global gauge symmetry.”


39 posted on 09/12/2016 6:21:05 PM PDT by Maceman (Screw the Party. Save the Country.)
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To: dayglored

Is this like Pop Rocks?


40 posted on 09/12/2016 6:28:32 PM PDT by Lurkina.n.Learnin (Hillary Clinton AKA The Potemkin Princess of the Potomac)
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