I wonder if it can turn back time. Google scientists claimed to have created a time crystal in a quantum computer! To be more specific, these experts claim to have used a quantum processor for a useful scientific application: to observe a genuine time crystal. Now before anyone rushes to the Google headquarters with demands to go back in time, time crystals are no less than a new ‘phase of matter:’
Understanding why time crystals are interesting requires a little bit of background in physics – particularly, knowledge of the second law of thermodynamics, which states that systems naturally tend to settle in a state known as "maximum entropy".
To take an example: if you pour some milk into a coffee cup, the milk will eventually dissolve throughout the coffee, instead of sitting on the top, enabling the overall system to come to an equilibrium. This is because there are many more ways for the coffee to randomly spread throughout the coffee than there are for it to sit, in a more orderly fashion, at the top of the cup.
This irresistible drive towards thermal equilibrium, as described in the second law of thermodynamics, is reflective of the fact that all things tend to move towards less useful, random states. As time goes on, systems inevitably degenerate into chaos and disorder – that is, entropy.
Time crystals, on the other hand, fail to settle in thermal equilibrium. Instead of slowly degenerating towards randomness, they get stuck in two high-energy configurations that they switch between – and this back-and-forth process can go on forever.
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pretty good summary, i like it.
j/k... really good.
Love to be a gReat hacker someday!
Phreakers don't really exist anymore. Mainly because almost all major telecom companies have switche dover to purely digital signals that doesn't use tone generation. Therefore, blackboxes no longer work. Spammers aren't hackers nor will they ever be considered hackers. Spammers are the same garbage that are called Phishers.
Forget it, Im done. Your article is not worth the time nor the effort to actually go into further detail on hacking because you obviously have placed your views into the same category as the rest of the world. This view is simply explained as, "Hacking is bad, all it has done is cause problems, I'm a pawn to society, I don't actually care about learning and I find FOX news to be the single most respected channel on Television to date."
Next time you write an article like this, grow some balls and do it better. Get your facts straight, stop reiterating the garbage we all know and hate because it continues to enforce the prejudice and biased opinions on hacking. Without hacking you would have had no Internet. Go read about Tim Berners-Lee or Richard Stallman.
This last guy is really a happy camper ^
You were 'Done' with it your 3rd paragraph in? Maybe you should have just turned off the computer. Walked in to a library. Found a book about computer history sat down and STFU! But no, you'd have complained to the poor librarian about how outdated this material is.
Do your self a favor, grow some balls and start your own damn blog and tell us all how it is.....or just go hack your fucking Pascaline, bitch.