Google claims it's figured out how to make a time crystal

[lava]

Shortly after leveraging time crystals no-energy state change for endless free power I got a call on my time crystal phone - voice mail said “cut it out”.

[RickMycroft]

Or listening to old radio programs.

(One day I’ll build one with a 4 diode full wave rectifier.)

[Brainspore]

@horkhork

Pfft, Gene Ray invented Time Cube dozens of years ago.

Or possibly dozens of years from now depending on your point of view.

[anon3894935]

Cool, now they’ll be able to harvest your data to sell to advertisers at crazy quantum speed.

[TripleE]

That’s because the educated stupid didn’t understand the Time Cube!

[jackacme]

Will there be a USB port to connect to the turbo-encapulator?

[henry_minsky]

Better hurry while there’s still an AM analog station left…

[bashful]

@anon52120741

too much time makes me tense.

I used to be tense before I got past tense.

[Otherbrother]

@Surprise_Puma

We all know that the first practical use of a time crystal will be

A gold watch that’s as expensive as a new car?

Astron (wristwatch)

I know that the google crystal is far more advanced and I certainly don’t fully understand it or the potential applications, but a lot of the discussion around it almost makes it sound like the quartz crystals we’ve using to build accurate clocks and watches for nearly a century now.

[anon72357663]

[joey_bladb]

Solid, liquid, gas, plasma… Einstein-Bose condensate … time crystal.

Other phases of matter yet to be discovered:

Faery dust
Heart of the Tardis
pork nachos
midichlorians
Jim Floppzpszzscg
Gemütlichkeit

[smut_clyde]

Now you’re perfect.

[smut_clyde]

“What’s that?”
“Powdered Time.”
“Oh, I love thyme. I like to do bread with thyme. Or beef.”
“No, my boy. Time.”

[lastchance]

Reading the description, I can only categorize this as “unknown unknowns”.

Here’s some time crystals for the BBS:

[orenwolf]

@KathyPartdeux

That was the first thing that came to mind!

[gatto]

@bashful

Maybe someone could just start by making a nice clock with it.

yeah, im curious how you “read” a time crystal and if the act of reading it alters it’s state at all. not even necessarily quantum like, but if whatever mechanical or light based means would interfere with or slow down the clock in some way.

[Purplecat]

Time crystals? Just make sure you don’t forget to add water to them after they’ve dissolved.

[anon40366910]

[stinkinbadgers]

If TV has taught me anything, fiddling with these sorts of crystals usually creates some sort of trouble. Nothing that can’t be solved in approximately 20 minutes, but trouble nonetheless.

[bashful]

Aww, how sweet!

Or is it that I will have been perfect?