Yale physicists find signs of a time crystal

Re:Yale physicists find signs of a time crystal by thomble on Friday May 04, 2018 @01:37PM (#16996484)

Can I somehow integrate this with my 1982 DeLorean?

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Re:Yale physicists find signs of a time crystal by dang on Friday May 04, 2018 @06:00PM (#16998750)

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16995305 and marked it off-topic.

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Re:Yale physicists find signs of a time crystal by jdrov on Friday May 04, 2018 @02:00PM (#16996712)

Admittedly, if you asked me 20 years ago which one of "time crystal" or "flux capacitor" were actually from a movie called "Back to the Future," I am not confident I would answer correctly.

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Re:Yale physicists find signs of a time crystal by reificator on Friday May 04, 2018 @03:48PM (#16997644)

I hope that's because you were too young to have seen the movie, because 20 years ago was 1998.

Back to the Future was 1985. (And 1989/1990)

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Re:Yale physicists find signs of a time crystal by smarks on Friday May 04, 2018 @04:32PM (#16998051)

If a time crystal could somehow be manipulated to change the moment of inertia, that might be called an oscillation overthruster.

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