“I am sure that you know best, Mr. Scott.” Behind the words, there’s a generous measure of doubt. It’s reflected too on Pavel’s face, uncertainty making crooked lines of his brown and tugging at the corners of his mouth.

  i want to write but im so tired

messes up hair

There were people who had abilities, working in the mines as well, but those abilities were considered lacking (the boy aside). You can tell by the group of people he addresses outside, they aren’t all human down there.

That.....is even worse?????

‘Abilities considered lacking’ like woooooooow like they weren’t elitist enough 

Munday Stuff - accepting

♻️ grab the nearest book. Flip to page 48, and tell us what the 10th line says.

’’ Ichor drenched the screaming demon’s form. ’’ from The Sundering, part three of War of the Ancients Trilogy. Since it’s the climax of the story, it starts off with a fight scene and yeah lmfao. I need more WoW books to read tbh. SOMEONE GET ME THOSE

〽️ what was THE thing you had as a child, blanket, teddy bear, etc you took with you everywhere and never wanted to part with?

Oddly enough, I don’t think I ever had something like that? I don’t know, I was never THAT attached to stuff ( don’t get me wrong I had toys and such I was really fond of buuut yeah )

he should drink something green.

  relativisticphysics:surlymccoy replied to your...

i cant believe you two made me read this with my own two eyes.

Cutting edge physics research gives us another remarkable idea that sounds like something out of a science fiction novel. In 2012, Nobel-Prize winning Frank Wilczek and a team of theoretical physicists at MIT came up with an idea that hypothetical structures exist that would appear to move without using energy. He called them "time crystals". While most physicists since then have dismissed the idea as "impossible", a new paper shows how these time crystals could actually exist, possibly changing our understanding of fundamental principles of nature.

What's special about time crystals is that, if they exist, they could break the symmetry of time and space. The way time crystals would move is in a repeating pattern, without using stored energy, in a sort of perpetual motion.

“I was thinking about the classification of crystals, and then it just occurred to me that it’s natural to think about space and time together,” said Wilczek about his idea. “So if you think about crystals in space, it’s very natural also to think about the classification of crystalline behavior in time.”

The reason crystals gave Wilczek the idea is because they exhibit unusual growth behavior, with their atoms spontaneously organizing into rows, columns and 3D lattices, without becoming symmetrical like a sphere. This breaks the spatial symmetry of nature, which maintains that all places are equivalent. Knowing this, Professor Wilczek came up with mathematical proof that showed the atoms of crystallizing matter could regularly form repeating lattices in time, but without consuming or producing any energy. They would return to their “ground state” and start the process all over again. Such a system would be breaking time-translational symmetry (TTS), another fundamental symmetry in physics.

This idea seemed strange, but because it had peer-reviewed proof, other scientists were compelled to consider it. If experimentalists could make real the ideas that theoretical physicists came up with, the existence of time crystals would shed light on the nature of time itself, possibly reconciling the theory of relativity with quantum mechanics.

Red fluorite crystals shown at the Natural history Museum in Paris. Photo by PATRICK KOVARIK/AFP/Getty Images.

Now, experimental scientists from the University of California, Santa Barbara and from Microsoft's research lab Station Q published a paper, explaining how symmetry-breaking time crystals could be possible. They maintain there is a difference between “explicit” and “spontaneous” symmetry breaking. 

"If a symmetry is broken explicitly, then the laws of nature do not have the symmetry any more; spontaneous symmetry breaking means that the laws of nature have a symmetry, but nature chooses a state that doesn't," said Dominic Else, co-author of the paper.

Basically, nature can choose to make exceptions.

The scientists predict that this kind of broken symmetry can happen in quantum systems they called "Floquet-many-body-localized driven systems." And they have an experiment in mind to create these.

"In collaboration with experimental research groups, we are exploring the possibility of realizing Floquet time crystals in systems of cold atomic gases," said co-author Chetan Nayak at Microsoft Station Q and UCSB to Phys.org.

They plan to use a large system of trapped atoms, trapped ions or superconducting qubits to create a time crystal, then to observe it and measure its changes over time.