by totalvirgin June 8, 2022
Get the Polishing the crystal ball mug.The coolest dude in history, likes to say "dead chat" and is purposely annoying, everyone hates him but he doesn't give a fuck
by Lava Crystal February 22, 2022
Get the Lava Crystal mug.Is that crystal._.moon0?
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by Dripgokuwaffle March 6, 2022
Get the crystal._.moon0 mug.A purely theoretical concept suggesting that spacetime crystals might be used to manipulate the local flow of time, potentially enabling temporal navigation. If spacetime crystals represent stable, engineerable structures in the fourth dimension, perhaps they could be arranged to create gradients in temporal flow—a "time slope" that could be surfed. This is the realm of extreme speculation, bordering on science fiction, where crystals become tools for accessing closed timelike curves or creating controllable time dilation fields.
Spacetime Crystals Travel Example: In a far-future story, a spacetime crystal sail is deployed around a spacecraft. By carefully modulating the crystal's temporal lattice, it creates a localized region where time flows faster in front of the ship and slower behind it. The ship doesn't move through space; space moves through the time gradient, carrying the ship along. This isn't propulsion; it's navigation by time sculpting. The crystal doesn't break causality—it just bends it.
by Dumu The Void February 11, 2026
Get the Spacetime Crystals Travel mug.A speculative method of information transfer using the temporal structure of spacetime crystals as a carrier wave. Unlike radio, which modulates amplitude or frequency, spacetime crystal communication would modulate the phase of time itself—the relative timing of the crystal's eternal ticks. Such a signal would be extraordinarily robust, difficult to jam, and potentially capable of operating in environments where conventional electromagnetic transmission fails (deep underground, in plasma, across vast interstellar distances).
Spacetime Crystals Communication *Example: A deep-space probe powered down for centuries wakes up. Its only active component is a tiny spacetime crystal, oscillating in perfect phase since launch. Earth sends a signal: a precisely timed pulse that shifts the probe's crystal phase by π/2. The probe reads this shift. This single bit—"wake up and transmit"—required no power to maintain, could not be intercepted without detection (any measurement would disturb the phase), and will remain readable for millennia. This is communication through the geometry of time.*
by Dumu The Void February 11, 2026
Get the Spacetime Crystals Communication mug.A proposed computational paradigm where information is encoded not in static bits, but in the temporal phase relationships of spacetime crystals. Computation becomes a dance of cycles: logic gates are implemented by interfering the periodic outputs of multiple crystals; memory is stored in persistent, repeating states; processing occurs through the evolution of temporal lattice patterns. This promises inherently fault-tolerant, low-energy computing, as the crystal's dynamics are topologically protected from perturbation.
Spacetime Crystals Computing *Example: In a spacetime crystal computer, the number 42 isn't stored as a voltage in a flip-flop. It's encoded in the relative phase shift between two eternally oscillating time crystals. An addition operation is performed by entangling their temporal lattices, causing a predictable phase shift proportional to the sum. The calculation is not a discrete event; it's an ongoing, parallel property of the crystalline time order.*
by Dumu The Void February 11, 2026
Get the Spacetime Crystals Computing mug.The discipline of designing, fabricating, stabilizing, and integrating spacetime crystals into functional systems. This involves solving immense challenges: isolating the crystal from environmental noise that breaks time-translation symmetry, scaling from microscopic trapped-ion systems to usable lattices, creating interfaces to input and extract signals, and maintaining the crystal in its non-equilibrium phase without collapse. It is engineering where the primary material is not silicon, but quantum coherence across time.
Spacetime Crystals Engineering Example: A spacetime crystals engineer doesn't etch a wafer; they laser-cool a chain of ytterbium ions into a perfect line, then apply precisely timed electromagnetic pulses to lock them into a Floquet time crystal phase. Their "fabrication facility" is an optical table. Their "defect inspection" is reading spin states. Their product is a temporal lattice that will, if isolated, cycle identically until the heat death of the universe.
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