Monday
VR Adventure:
We continue our boxing in VR. Really would love to play around with more experience and report back. Time is just tricky.
Food: 30
Weight: 191.1
Today’s Awesome:
You read that right. There is something called a time crystal, and it’s related to quantum mechanics and it’s just so cool.
For Your Consideration:
The struggle of the techie
Tuesday
VR Adventure:
I did more boxing, but in a different way: I’m focused on increasing “power.” You can be accurate by hitting all targets, but there is also a measure called power, whereby it measures things like the velocity and apparently adjusts to your own power. I’ve gotten 100 percent accurate but never 100 percent power. It’s really tricky. And it seems to be a lot about timing. Like how, if you swing super super hard at a baseball but don’t hit it just right, it’s not much of a hit. Gotta hit those sweet spots. Which makes it feel more like a real world scenario, which is a lot of fun.
Food: 30
Weight: ?
I keep missing days. Not great.
Today’s Awesome:
Enough Wikipedia! Have a visual synopsis of time crystals.
For Your Consideration:
Wednesday
VR Adventure:
More boxing!
Food: 34
Weight: 190.6
Today’s Awesome:
Okay, more about time crystals, specifically the ones Google made. Takeaway: they don’t work as perpetual motion. Energy switches the phase around, it seems.
For Your Consideration:
Thursday
VR Adventure:
Nothing today.
Food: 30
Weight: 189.8
Today’s Awesome:
Here is a pretty awesome interview in article form about time crystals. Including better explanations about the whole perpetual motion bit. https://spectrum.ieee.org/amp/qa-creating-time-crystals-using-quantum-computers-2655951228
For Your Consideration:
Friday
VR Adventure:
Nothing today.
Food: CHEAT DAY
Weight: ?
Today’s Awesome:
So, what do we use time crystals for? Maybe stabilizing quantum computers, and those gizmos can do some incredible computations.
For Your Consideration:
Saturday
VR Adventure:
Nothing today.
Food: FAIL DAY
Weight: ?
Today’s Awesome:
What’s cooler than a time crystal? How about a more resilient time crystal made of light!
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/time-crystals-made-of-light-could-soon-escape-the-lab/?amp=true
For Your Consideration:
Sunday
VR Adventure:
Got a chance to go back to flinging bats around. Got some sore shoulders Monday.
Food: FAIL DAY
Weight: 190.1
Today’s Awesome:
Lest we forget, Dr Who has a rich history of fictional time crystals.
For Your Consideration:
Bonus!
Outro:
My goodness. Kind of stagnating in the 190s. I wonder what other things I can try?