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[Deleted member 102362]

If those lions get out I bet they'll be pretty pissed.

I have to admit, I initially read this as "Space-time crystals of trapped lions."

 

[Scrow]

 

[twobear]

Call me paranoid, but why is it, "mystical and amazing science achievement" always translates into 'makes computers faster/better'.

I bet if they found some kind of quantum physics philosophers stone particle they'd probably say it would make computers 3x faster or something to justify it.

it's a goddamn Time crystal, and so they use it to make a faster laptop? Unless that laptop can Google video the birth of Christ, I say they need to keep their eyes on the prize and get back to time machines and dimensional portals and hyperspace and shit. Time crystals don't grow on trees.

Well, there's two points going on here. Firstly, scientists could always use a faster computer. Secondly, $$$.

 

[SquiddyCracker]

Well, there's two points going on here. Firstly, scientists could always use a faster computer. Secondly, $$$.

Thirdly, no one could come up with any other theoretical application of this.
I mean, aside from stilling some scientific curiosity, what the heck can you do with space-time crystals with trapped ions?

 

[Wazzim]

now lets take 150 years to do anything with the knowledge like we normally do

that's only because nobody wants to throw money at science, imagine governments putting billions into this instead of banks.

 

[CurlySaysX]

Tongcang Li, Zhe-Xuan Gong, Zhang-Qi Yin, H. T. Quan, Xiaobo Yin, Peng Zhang, L.-M. Duan, Xiang Zhang

 

[SquiddyCracker]

True immortality? A computer that could function in the end state of entropy is a very interesting thing.

The only tricky bit is assembling it.

 

[davepoobond]

that's only because nobody wants to throw money at science, imagine governments putting billions into this instead of banks.

that's because science is a money pit and you wont see returns on it for 100 years instead of 150 if you dump money into it. as if the government were somehow able to speed up the process when we all know the government is a huge lumbering machine running on antiquated innards.

i'd say money is more useful in the hands of banks because then science companies can get grants from companies that loan that money from the banks.

 

[Xero]

that's because science is a money pit and you wont see returns on it for 100 years instead of 150 if you dump money into it. as if the government were somehow able to speed up the process when we all know the government is a huge lumbering machine running on antiquated innards.

i'd say money is more useful in the hands of banks because then science companies can get grants from companies that loan that money from the banks.

Even though I know your not, that post with your avatar makes me imagine the ceo of a big bank cruising around messageboards trying to make banks seem great.

 

[Ether_Snake]

From a comment on Physorg:

Much like with a superconducting ring: If you have a cheap way that keeps the superconducting state alive (e.g. by burying a 'high temperature' superconductor on the Moon) you can create a very efficient energy storage device which will keep its charge basically forever until it's needed.
Much better than batteries which will go dead eventually.

If you do this for the proposed space-time crystal, then you could construct a data-vault that would keep its data alive indefinitely and could be read out very efficiently when needed (albeit only once).

Cool, so an advance civilization might have made such crystals and threw them somewhere in space to be preserved indefinitely until found. They could maybe even still be found after another big-bang!

One thing I wonder is, what happens to the trapped ion if the crystal is a sphere instead of a ring?

 

[SquiddyCracker]

From a comment on Physorg:



Cool, so an advance civilization might have made such crystals and threw them somewhere in space to be preserved indefinitely until found. They could maybe even still be found after another big-bang!

One thing I wonder is, what happens to the trapped ion if the crystal is a sphere instead of a ring?

Space-time crystal used as a time-capsule is neat, but just another application of a space-time crystal computer.

Using it as a battery is pretty different though, though I doubt we'll ever see them used in our smartphones.

 

[Woorloog]

Using it as a battery is pretty different though, though I doubt we'll ever see them used in our smartphones.

Emergency power. That would be obvious use for them... though of course these batteries would have to be re-created in case they're used.

 

[SquiddyCracker]

Emergency power. That would be obvious use for them... though of course these batteries would have to be re-created in case they're used.

Or, power for a civilization intending on surviving the end of the universe.
A couple of computers storing stuff, some nanobots, and some batteries, and they might be able to jumpstart civilization if the conditions were to change at some point.

 

[CorvoSol]

Nah.

Only if it leads to Jean, and not the Phoenix Fools.