<div dir="ltr">Waaay too much hype for something that hasn't even been verified yet.  Almost makes it seem likely that it'll come to nothing.</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Aug 17, 2021 at 9:24 AM John Grigg via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><p style="color:rgb(80,86,102);font-family:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;box-sizing:border-box;border:0px;outline:none;margin:0px 0px 1.25rem;padding:0px;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:1.75;vertical-align:baseline"><font size="4">"Eureka! A research team featuring dozens of scientists working in partnership with Google‘s quantum computing labs <i style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px;outline:none;margin:0px;padding:0px;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">may</i><span style="font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;box-sizing:border-box;border:0px;outline:none;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"> have created the world’s first time crystal inside a quantum computer.</span></font></p><p style="color:rgb(80,86,102);font-family:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;box-sizing:border-box;border:0px;outline:none;margin:0px 0px 1.25rem;padding:0px;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:1.75;vertical-align:baseline"><font size="4"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px;outline:none;margin:0px;padding:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">This is <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.13571" rel="nofollow noopener" style="color:rgb(102,0,153);box-sizing:border-box;border:0px;outline:none;margin:0px;padding:0px 0.125rem;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank">the kind of news</a> that makes me want to jump up and do a </span><i style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px;outline:none;margin:0px;padding:0px;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">happy dance.</i></font></p><p style="color:rgb(80,86,102);font-family:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;box-sizing:border-box;border:0px;outline:none;margin:0px 0px 1.25rem;padding:0px;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:1.75;vertical-align:baseline"><font size="4">These scientists <i style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px;outline:none;margin:0px;padding:0px;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">may</i> have produced an entirely new phase of matter. I’m going to do my best to explain what that means and why I personally believe this is the most important scientific breakthrough in our lifetimes."</font></p><p style="color:rgb(80,86,102);font-family:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;box-sizing:border-box;border:0px;outline:none;margin:0px 0px 1.25rem;padding:0px;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:1.75;vertical-align:baseline"><font size="4"><a href="https://thenextweb.com/news/google-may-have-achieved-breakthrough-time-crystals" target="_blank">https://thenextweb.com/news/google-may-have-achieved-breakthrough-time-crystals</a></font></p></div>
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