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I found ultra-pure quantum crystals in an abandoned mine in the Atacama desert

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Re: I found ultra-pure quantum crystals in an abandoned mine in the Atacama desert

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Post by tomaskafka »

jerojero wrote: post #41

I was arguing with a Chilean friend who moved a few years ago to the USA. He was telling me how Chile doesn't do good science. I challenged his claim saying Chile actually had great scientists that were severely underfunded (Chile's investment in science and research is ~0.4% of the GDP versus the OECD average of ~2.7%). I think it's sort of a big consensus with people that have never been involved in science work, i…

You described https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_curse

Re: I found ultra-pure quantum crystals in an abandoned mine in the Atacama desert

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Post by nidayewo »

jerojero wrote: post #41

I was arguing with a Chilean friend who moved a few years ago to the USA. He was telling me how Chile doesn't do good science. I challenged his claim saying Chile actually had great scientists that were severely underfunded (Chile's investment in science and research is ~0.4% of the GDP versus the OECD average of ~2.7%). I think it's sort of a big consensus with people that have never been involved in science work, i…

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Re: I found ultra-pure quantum crystals in an abandoned mine in the Atacama desert

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Post by ticulatedspline »

zeusdclxvi wrote: post #4

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_spin_liquid Neat

The animation is great though I don't understand how the collapsed singlet can exist in proximity to the superimposed ones. I would expect the presence of the defined spin to create an "observation" of a neighbor and immediately collapse the entire material.

Re: I found ultra-pure quantum crystals in an abandoned mine in the Atacama desert

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Post by IAmBroom »

riskable wrote: post #42
Havoc wrote: post #28

Quantum crystals sound more like something out of a video game than reality

The quest: Recover data stored in the quantum crystal matrix by building a tachyon pulse emitter.

Simple. Just reverse the polarity.

That solves every problem that a warp bubble can't.

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Post by pavel_lishin »

Razengan wrote: post #23
zeusdclxvi wrote: post #4

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_spin_liquid Neat

The animation is pretty good and helps to easily understand the phenomenon

And the music that goes along with it is pretty great, too.

Apparently done by this artist? https://laoexperiment.bandcamp.com/album/quantum-magnet-soun...

Re: I found ultra-pure quantum crystals in an abandoned mine in the Atacama desert

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Post by pavel_lishin »

IAmBroom wrote: post #55
riskable wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The quest: Recover data stored in the quantum crystal matrix by building a tachyon pulse emitter.

Simple. Just reverse the polarity. That solves every problem that a warp bubble can't.

And blow out all the Heisenburg compensators on board? I won't do it, captain!

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Post by Razengan »

dekhn wrote: post #52
Razengan wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The animation is pretty good and helps to easily understand the phenomenon

this looks like those bot comments on youtube videos.

"I didn't expect to understand this topic like with most articles about weird shit on Wikipedia but wow, that animation actually brought the DC of grokking that knowledge within the reach of my INT modifier! Like super cool, dude!"

How's this? Is it more human-like now?

(your feedback may be used to improve the model for everyone)

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Post by ninalanyon »

cogman10 wrote: post #45
jerojero wrote: post #41

I was arguing with a Chilean friend who moved a few years ago to the USA. He was telling me how Chile doesn't do good science. I challenged his claim saying Chile actually had great scientists that were severely underfunded (Chile's investment in science and research is ~0.4% of the GDP versus the OECD average of ~2.7%). I think it's sort of a big consensus with people that have never been involved in science work, i…

That's actually a bit wild that Chile isn't refining or smelting copper. Is it because there's not the energy capacity to run smelters? I thought Chili had a pretty abundant energy grid (mostly hydro as I recall).

Australia behaves the same way, exports ore to China and buys back the refined products. Both countries have abundant energy (hydro and solar) but have old fashioned mining interests in charge.

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Post by throwaway5752 »

tomaskafka wrote: post #51
jerojero wrote: post #41

I was arguing with a Chilean friend who moved a few years ago to the USA. He was telling me how Chile doesn't do good science. I challenged his claim saying Chile actually had great scientists that were severely underfunded (Chile's investment in science and research is ~0.4% of the GDP versus the OECD average of ~2.7%). I think it's sort of a big consensus with people that have never been involved in science work, i…

You described https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_curse

the newly elected president criticized foundational research saying it doesn't "turn into jobs" and instead "ends up in an expensive book abandoned in a library".

That isn't the Dutch Disease, it's anti-intellectualism. It is where Pol Pots come from eventually, and it never leads anywhere good.

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