Quantaping!...............
so no heat...
Time Travel?
If Lucy Preston is going, sign me up.
I’ll trade you my Dilithium Crystal for your Time Crystal.
Unless these ‘time crystals’ power the laser that holds them in state, this apparatus consumes energy just like any other natural process.
0. There is a game (consequence of zeroth law of thermodynamics)
1. You can't win. (consequence of first law of thermodynamics)
2. You can't break even. (consequence of second law of thermodynamics)
3. You can't even get out of the game. (consequence of third law of thermodynamics)
“The consequence is amazing: You evade the second law of thermodynamics,” said Roderich Moessner, director of the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems in Dresden, Germany, and a co-author on the Google paper.
Huh. The guy found a loophole.
Jesus kept dividing a few loaves and fishes to feed thousands.
Time crystals will soon become politicians. It’s their nature — forever flip-flopping.
I’d like to hear a physicist’s explanation of how the crystal states can be “observed” with no energetic interaction. If the crystal is not emitting energy, and we aren’t bouncing some wavelength off the crystal (which would affect it), how do we measure the state of the crystal?
Heisenberg tells us observation is interaction.
Well, what are they going to use it for?
Transporters?
5.56mm
Time crystals: truly fascinating stuff. But it's so far beyond me, I'll never understand it. It'd take 10,000 years for me to get my PhD in it. Now, if I could do it in 200 seconds, I could come back here and make a non-trivial contribution to this thread before it dies. Otherwise, fuhgeddaoudit! (Maybe if you could plug one time crystal in each ear, you could do it?... Just asking)