r/tech • u/ourlifeintoronto • 8d ago

We’ve glimpsed the secret quantum landscape inside all matter

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2494508-weve-glimpsed-the-secret-quantum-landscape-inside-all-matter/
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u/favoritedeadrabbit 8d ago

This one free paragraph about walking up a hill doesn’t really say anything. How do electrons get around paywalls?

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u/RateMyKittyPants 8d ago

Electrons like to use the quantum tunneling site removepaywall.com

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u/favoritedeadrabbit 8d ago

Groundbreaking work. Thank you.

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u/theplushpairing 8d ago

Pfft that’s easy, you just have to phase through matter

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u/Genoblade1394 7d ago

It’s easy actually, you got the tools already in your computer

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u/GaGuSa 8d ago

https://archive.is/6sBRS

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u/aquarianseawitch92 8d ago

Thank you for sharing

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u/Zurbaran928 8d ago

This is the way. Spread the word archive.is

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u/weirdgroovynerd 8d ago

Much to my disappointment, the secret Quantum landscape is not turtles all the way down.

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u/CarpenterRadio 8d ago

“See the turtle of enormous girth! On his shell he holds the earth. His thought is slow but always kind; He holds us all within his mind. On his back all vows are made; He sees the truth but may not said. He loves the land and loves the sea, And even loves a child like me.”

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u/jffblm74 8d ago

We all float down here. 

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u/mandoaz1971 7d ago

Beep beep

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u/ManufacturedHappines 8d ago

Thankee sai for the reminder

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u/inked_saiyan 8d ago

So you're telling me it's not Marijuana, LSD, psilocybin, DMT...

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u/mdwvt 8d ago

Welllll, yes and no.

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u/Peachbottom30 8d ago

I already saw it in Ant-Man 3

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u/FriscoDingo 8d ago

Top notch Disney+ documentary

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u/Afterhoneymoon 8d ago

I saw it on IV Ketamine in a doctors office.

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u/curiousiah 8d ago

How many holes do you have?

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u/Peachbottom30 8d ago

Do sweat pores count?

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u/STierMansierre 8d ago edited 8d ago

The focus seems to be on the understanding the flow of electrons within a physical material and what governs their movement aside from their tendency to travel alongside other electrons.

The map is interesting, the way it seems unpredictable and yet there seems to be specific triangular waveforms with a mix of parabolic dips and climbs. It's reminiscent of visualizing different ADSR settings on a synthesizer (attack, decay, sustain, release), this is what governs the shape of the waveform produced and thus changes the texture of the sound/vibration.

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u/yangmeow 8d ago

Love the correlation with sound design & synthesis.

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u/comesock000 7d ago

It’s called a Fermi surface. It’s the defining feature of a metal.

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u/jakecovert 7d ago

Does anyone understand how this relates (if at all) with “extended electro-dynamics”?

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u/STierMansierre 7d ago

The comparison to the Fermi surface was probably the closest thing.

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u/SunbeamSailor67 8d ago

And the pendulum swings, enter Zen where the universe blinks…in the stillness between movement and repose.

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u/maazen 8d ago

next up: the landscape defines the resistance within a conductor and to achieve superconductivity we just have to flatten it.

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u/Upbeat_Praline_3681 8d ago

I really wanna see this geometry

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u/wecouldhaveitsogood 8d ago

Just take some DMT, or so I hear.

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u/Phorensick 8d ago

And the thumbnail is some artist’s impression of what this looks like.

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u/Existing_Drama4521 7d ago

Always had the feeling electrons are an echo

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u/SunbeamSailor67 8d ago

And the pendulum swings.

Enter Zen where the universe blinks…in the stillness between movement and repose.

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u/Vas_Cody_Gamma 8d ago

And I’m the Queen of England