For The First Time, Physicists Have Filmed The Oscillation of a Time Crystal

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[–]Vigte 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

An actual random number generator sounds look a good first application then.

I'm glad you could at least get something of it, all I got was a headache, lol.

[–]iDontShift 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

they seem to be making more of it than I can see a reason too.

like they are tacking on all the probability shit for reasons I can't see.

To take up the coin example again, when the time crystal breaks time-translation symmetry that means that it is making a particular period in time special, which would be like having a 50/50 chance with the coin now, but knowing that if you waited a certain interval of time, say 10 seconds, those odds would change to 75/25.

if you can predict it, then it isn't useful for random numbers.

but whatever...

2016 that a group of physicists working at Station Q, a Microsoft research facility at UC Santa Barbara, figured out a way to correct the theoretical problems with Wilczek's time crystals and provided the stepping stone to actually make them

if microcrap is involved.. it is probably not good.