Article: "Google’s time crystal discovery is so big, we can’t fully comprehend it

… I can comprehend it though I don’t understand it … and its illogical, weird, absurd … and true. It holds significant implication to EnviroAI and our mission to build a machine to protect earth.

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Article, “Google’s time crystal discovery so big, we can’t fully comprehend it”.

… “I can comprehend it but I don’t understand it. It’s illogical. It’s absurd. It’s nonsensical. And most preposterously of all it appears to be true.”- Jed Anderson, EnviroAI

Wow is the universe we live in weird.

This discovery holds significant implication to EnviroAI and our mission to build a quantum AI machine to protect earth.

[I would highly recommend watching this recent Google quantum computing clip if you haven’t seen it.]

Google, Stanford, and Princeton announced perhaps the greatest scientific discovery of this century so far. Using a quantum computer, they appear to have created a new state of matter and also given the middle-finger to Isaac Newton (we might need to put an asterisk on the First Law of Motion).

“Time Crystals” were first conceived as theoretically possible by Nobel Laureate Frank Wilczek back in 2012, I’ll let you learn about this phenomena and think about the implications for environmental protection on your own. I will point out however that Nobel Laureate Richard Feynman is probably smiling from heaven that a quantum computer was used to help discover this phenomena (see quote below).

I CANNOT OVEREMPHASIZE TO YOU WHAT QUANTUM COMPUTING/SENSING/COMMUNICATION WILL LIKELY MEAN TO UNDERSTANDING AND PROTECTING PROBABILISTIC SYSTEMS LIKE THE ENVIRONMENT. That is why the Quantum AI Environmental Protection machine we are building at EnviroAI will rely so heavily on this technology.

Quantum AI Protection System

---“Nature isn’t classical, dammit, and if you want to make a simulation of Nature, you’d better make it quantum mechanical, and by golly it’s a wonderful problem, because it doesn’t look so easy.”-Richard Feynman

---“We are beginning now to be able to simulate how nature really works—the probabilistic nature of reality that underlies classically observed systems.”- Jed Anderson

BUILDING

A MACHINE

TO PROTECT

EARTH USING

AI & QUANTUM

TECHNOLOGIES

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Approach (click here)

Game-Plan (click here)

---“The earth is what we all have in common.”

—Wendell Berry

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  author = {Jed Anderson},
  title  = {Article: "Google’s time crystal discovery is so big, we can’t fully comprehend it},
  year   = {2021},
  url    = {https://jedanderson.org/posts/article-googles-time-crystal-discovery-is-so-big-we-cant-fully-comprehend-it},
  note   = {Accessed: 2026-05-13}
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Anderson, J. (2021). Article: "Google’s time crystal discovery is so big, we can’t fully comprehend it. Retrieved from https://jedanderson.org/posts/article-googles-time-crystal-discovery-is-so-big-we-cant-fully-comprehend-it

Anderson, Jed. "Article: "Google’s time crystal discovery is so big, we can’t fully comprehend it." Jed Anderson, August 2, 2021, https://jedanderson.org/posts/article-googles-time-crystal-discovery-is-so-big-we-cant-fully-comprehend-it.