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What are quasicrystals?
« on: 27/05/2017 01:21:07 »
So watching the ancient astronaut bunk theorists, Quasicrystal came up as a possible anti gravitational force, bunk in my book, but how do we test it?
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/brand-new-quasicrystal-discovered-meteorite/
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Re: What are quasicrystals?
« Reply #1 on: 27/05/2017 02:52:39 »
Quasicrystals are certainly real. I studied some quasicrystaline structures a while ago--they are REALLY cool! But I don't think there is any way that it could be connected with antigravity. Special optical, electronic and magnetic properties? Sure. But nothing special about these structures as far as gravity or the strong force are concerned (so no antigravity or cold fusion or anything else along those lines).

One way of thinking about these types of structures is that many of them are actually 3D projections of the same 4D "hypercrystal," where the different observed structures result from projections along different axes of this hypercrystal. This doesn't necessarily imply that there actually are 4 spatial dimensions that the crystals reside in, (and it's not space-time either...time crystals are a whole nother matter) but the maths work out quite nicely for describing these unusual structures in 4 rather than 3 dimensions.

See this paper: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/chem.200701396/abstract
(apologies to those blocked by the pay wall... at least you can read the abstract and click on the "preview" to see a blurry version of the paper, which still shows enough of the diagrams to be somewhat useful. Anyone who desperately wants to read this paper should send me a private message)
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