our tax money at work!
we will get more out of this “after the universe ends” clock than we have gotten out of the last $5 TRILLION dollars BHusseinO has borrowed/spent/stolen in our names.
Prepare to pay and pay and pay and pay and pay all this money back.
For years.
Maybe until “after the universe ends...”
Then we (or our ghosts?) can maybe make use of this wonderful clock we’ve paid for.
What goes around, comes around?
Useless. If you can’t take any energy out of it, you can’t synchronize an external chronometer to it.
Mental masturbation but interesting none the less.
I’ve had one of these for a while, and they are pretty accurate.
Berserkeley is so practical.
Now, if they could learn to operate the state without electricity blackouts instead of worrying about operating after the death of the universe...
I was under the impression that every physical object in the universe existed in the fourth dimension.
Doesn’t Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle mean that we can only read such a clock by upsetting its perfect timing? It might be a perpetual clock, but it would be so fragile that the first person to look at it would cause it to shatter. Besides a clock requires two components: an oscillator to emit time ticks and an accumulator to count them. This is half a clock at best, an oscillator. Without an accumulator to count the ticks, its worthless. The first tick you count is the last one it emits.
At the “heat death” of the universe, there is no energy available to do work. Everything is at the same energy level - zero. Everything is at the same temperature. Nothing is moving.
So this thing would stop too, just like everything else.
“The electric field of the ion trap holds charged particles in place and Coulomb repulsion causes them to spontaneously form a spatial ring crystal. Under the application of a weak static magnetic field, this ring-shaped ion crystal will begin a rotation that will never stop. The persistent rotation of trapped ions produces temporal order, leading to the formation of a space-time crystal at the lowest quantum energy state.”
B.S. The damn thing will quit one day after the warrenty expires just like everything else.
I need something like this, help me get to work on time and stuff
I already see a problem with this design. The “lasts forever” concept relies on a magnetic field which will NOT last forever.
NAPL!
“Because it’s functioning at the lowest quantum energy state, there is no energy output.”
Ummm... what about radioactive decay? Just because something is at its lowest energy state doesn’t mean it will stay that way forever. Everything breaks down eventually.
Isn’t any clock a “crystal in time”? It’s periodic, after all.
Anyone who likes this kind of thinking will just loooove the book “Permutation City”. Wild stuff man.