Quasiparticle That Only Has Mass When Moving In One Direction

[@seditt5146]

I went to read the research and for the love of god can we all agree that 50 bucks for a single research paper is absolutely insane? We need to start wholesale boycotting publishers because science should never be gatekept by the rich. It would make a little sense if the researchers got that money but they either don't or get very, very little. We tell people to follow the science ignoring the fact their path to follow it is blocked by paywalls at every turn. This has to stop.

[@chaosopher23]

There's ways around it. The sites listed aren't the only places to find the paper. Many times, asking one of the scientists involved will result in a downloadable copy in your email inbox. Hint: Real scientists can't keep their mouths shut. Hint #2: That's the whole point behind science.

[@seditt5146]

@chaosopher23 Oh I know but still this is insane. For the places you or I may know about casual readers of scientific stuff might not. Someone who gets a one off and might want to look more into it would instantly be turned off from ever trying to ready a science paper again. I have also actually had extremely poor success emailing the scientist and would say my hot rate is 25 percent or less. Hell I been waiting to hear back from the authors of acoustic skyrmions for over a year with little luck in digging it up elsewhere. Sure I could if I tried harder but not sure you or I should have to really. Publishers are parasites on the scientific institution that have embedded itself so deep into its host removal may kill or seriously maim it for a while which is a really baf thing. They are destroying science altogether because they have intentionally pushed for the publish or perish setup. Reminds me of those fungus that force the host to act against its self interest.

[@ralfpaul4244]

Nur zu widersprechen ist aber auch keine Physik, man muss schon etwas anbieten. MfG P.

[@AnthemUnanthemed]

thats pretty cheap in my experience too, some have recently started to leave some kind of value to the public by posting explainers on their youtube channels, but the actual paper behind a paywall which is an improvement (however slight), some still dont even do that, they think their job should just remain at publishing and collecting money, this is why a lot of people hate how the music industry works as well. I've seen individual papers cost several hundreds of dolars, or force a 250~$ subscription, that often requires a .edu email to sign up or a registered company, specifically locking it away from the general public, it got so bad, scientific articles got published about how bad the pay walls have been getting. But if u want a job or to get a good tenure at a university you need to publish in the high impact journals, until then you may be stuck basically as a temp, with multiple jobs trying to basically do the work for the research in your free time....... its not great thats why a lot of people kinda got forced into working in industry where they can actually make money.

[@curiositycloset2359]

Just ask the guy who wrote it to send you it.

[@KenLieck]

Just what physics needed - crazy particles going off half-massed!

[@ralfpaul4244]

Die Physik braucht das nicht denn wir kommen auch ohne solchen Unsinn klar, denn nur der Theo betrachtet ja die Physik als Behinderung seiner Kreativität, weshalb die meisten Theorien auch darauf abzielen etwas auszutricksen was man nicht versteht. Das ist wie bei den kleinen Kindern, die glauben wenn man sich die Augen zuhält und nix sieht wird man auch unsichtbar. Vielleicht unterscheiden wir genau aus diesem Grund zwischen Theorie und Physik. MfG P.

[@MeissnerEffect]

@@KenLieck Nice, lol 😜

[@someguy-k2h]

BAZINGA! That was pure genius.

[@arcanewyrm6295]

​@@someguy-k2hThank you for the bazinga. Sheldon's legacy must be preserved!

[@Unmannedair]

Freaking brilliant! ROFL

[@someguy-k2h]

When material scientists can use quantum dynamics to predict and then build a material that has the desired qualities, that's when you know you are on the right track. Thank you for the diverse content. It keeps us up to date on so many aspects of physics.

[@007ShaolinMonk]

Just wanted to thank you for making so many videos! One of the best channels here

[@ReclinedPhysicist]

Is that why we can't find dark matter because we're not looking in the right direction?

[@mykelevangelista6492]

It changes direction when we look for it.

[@LOCUS_LUCAS]

​@@mykelevangelista6492 Give it some time, it's just nervous

[@seanhewitt603]

Maybe it only shows up where and when we're not looking...

[@NancyRode-u9i]

🙄

[@SexIconBlonde]

U can’t find it cuz it’s dark

[@markharwood7573]

Stunning stuff. We are all used to being amazed on this channel but the behaviour of these virtual particles makes no sense at all. Keep it coming!

[@Zeuskabob1]

Truly! Virtual particles keep coming up with new ways to surprise us!

[@ralfpaul4244]

Wenn eine Theorie Sinn ergibt, dann weil sie sich beweisen lässt und dann nennt man es Physik. MfG P.

[@arcanewyrm6295]

​@ralfpaul4244 If it can be proven, isn't it then considered a law of physics? Isn't proof (and repeatability) the difference between theory and law in the realm of physics?

[@ralfpaul4244]

@@arcanewyrm6295 Darauf wollte ich hinaus, denn was uns die Theos meist bieten, sind Dinge die man weder betrachten noch anfassen kann oder sich an Orten befinden wo die brave Hausfrau nicht hinfahren kann, um nach zu sehen ob sie angelogen wurde. Während uns unser Atom-Müll Jahrtausende erhalten bleibt, bewegen wir uns hier oft im Nanosekunden-Bereich. MfG P.

[@ShawnPitman]

I formally propose the existence of “Dork Matter”. It approaches girls slowly, but flees them at the speed of light.

[@tesseract_1982]

It also explodes very easily when prodded to verify whether it is "strange" or "up" or "down". I think it should be classify as a kind of "spicy" matter. 🤔😅

[@mapache-ehcapam]

I'm full of it

[@AUniqueName]

This comment wins 😂

[@RadicalCaveman]

I knew this woman in New York who had a bunch of these particles. As a result, she weighed more when she went east. Because she was weight-obsessed, she refused to move in that direction. She could go north and south, but when she went west she couldn't come back. I told her, "Just drive east. No one will know you weigh more when you're alone in your car." She said, "I will know." Over time, she drifted further and further west. Last I heard she was somewhere out in the Pacific.

[@TopOfAllWorlds]

I feel like I may be missing the joke. I'm sick and my brains all fuzzy someone help me understand I want in on it!

[@mmo4754]

Could we use these particles to measure the one way speed of light?

[@KarolOfGutovo]

​@@mmo4754I don't think so, I think the information going to a single point to be compared would be time dialated in exactly the correct way to adjust for speed of light irregularities.

[@kenyonb]

And her name was manifest destiny 🌇

[@PhilW222]

This episode is quite mind-blowing!

[@TobyDog]

Anton "The Bridge" Petrov. My bridge between science and the ability to understand that science.

[@cosmicraysshotsintothelight]

"Thanks for playing. Please try again later." Hehehe... just kidding. I am the same.

[@stayconnectedoc]

This is crazy Bro. Thanks for this! Thank you for your important work informing us!

[@ralfpaul4244]

Es ist nix bewiesen also weder Wissen noch Aufklärung. MfG P.

[@gunterbreitfeld6421]

THX Anton, for explaining the nature in the fascinating world of mikro- and makrokosmos. 👌

[@jimcurtis9052]

Wonderful as always Anton. Thank you. 🙂👍

[@jasongarcia2140]

We really can't even imagine what types of new technology will develop from ideas like these.

[@billtackett7512]

If you could control it, you could build a motor...

[@Bit-while_going]

From electronics having mass? Maybe a quantum commuter that prays then?

[@meantweetsandcheepgas946]

EM drive comes to mind. If you could bounce it back and forth you would get a net force in one direction.

[@lost4468yt]

​@@meantweetsandcheepgas946no because it's only effective mass.

[@andiralosh2173]

​@@lost4468ytgonna need a bit more explanation pls

[@caspargroenen4363]

Just wanted to thank you. Great video,again.

[@FrancisFjordCupola]

It's the dietpillon-particle. The mass always seems to come back.

[@la7era1u54]

Like herpes?

[@TheSulross]

But shows that mass isn’t absolutely intrinsic

[@ralfpaul4244]

Keine Physik, aber erklärt trotzdem das Problem. MfG P.

[@DClover411]

I love your videos because I can trust what you're saying. Unlike most other videos about space on KZbin

[@HolmesHobbies]

Hmmmm, if we could potentially control mass of the object based on direction, could we produce or control thrust without ejecting mass?

[@WellSwolen69]

Could this also be used to make a compass system for space travel?

[@paulristow3454]

Absolutely! Vectored mass would be the 'holy grail' of reactionless space drives. $700/gram as Anton mentioned is a helluva lot less expensive than Unobtanium.

[@idris4587]

Energy is equivalent to mass so it wouldn't really change anything

[@KRaimix]

Doesnt that sum up universe expansion?

[@markmuller7962]

Yes because you'd have the particles oscillating, with mass and back to the starting position without mass. Still I wonder if the total energy would somehow stay the same and make this impossible

[@kwgm8578]

Anton, loved the new graphics, although some were hypnotic. You are talking about weird physics. 🧙🏽‍♂️🇺🇲💙

[@Whittz.Youtube]

Concept for thrust in low grav would be using a magnetic field and projecting them towards an object, have another magnetic field to shift its mass "pushing" the object. Get the particles up to speed before slamming against it. Or an engine that fluctuates the mass of the particles in a way thay would use ineria to to nudge it forward, like standing on a cart and shifting your weight to move the cart.

[@seditt5146]

Yeah I am wondering a lot of things here like how this acts in the face of relativity. Say we had a beam of these moving towards an object at the speed of light only to come in contact with a mass moving a fraction of the speed of light with a magnetic field. Would it allow us to transfer the momentum of these particles in a fashion that has the speeds of photons but the mass of something far greater giving us a potential means of real interstellar propulsion. Like a light sail but with delta V of chemical rockets. It's a space I am going to keep a close eye on. How would these act in the face of a powerful spinning magnetic field if only one direction sees mass. I feel like there is some virtually perpetual motion capabilities here which makes be suspect of all of it. Think of what could be done if water didn't have mass going the direction back up a waterfall. IDK, something seems off, probably my understanding of it all.

[@moddaudio]

Are you sure, if F = M * A, then maybe there is no change in force, only a balanced one in mass and acceleration.

[@seditt5146]

@moddaudio How can you find balance if in one direction M = 0 and a different direction M > 0 ? I just dont understand any of this really. Are we seeing a direct unification of electromagnetism with gravity here or something because magnetic fields themselves are a manifestation of relativistic notion of electrons. If tis particle was at rest two objects could pass it at the same time going differnt directions and one would experience force and the other not. It just feels like all this is direct violation of CPT semetry and too my knowledge nothing to date breaks all three at once. If we reverse the system in time nass appears... charge appears or disappears and forces are one directional.

[@Zeuskabob1]

Since it's a quasiparticle that behaves as if it's massless, I imagine the actual particles that compose this quasiparticle will still obey the law of conservation of momentum.

[@seditt5146]

@Zeuskabob1 ahh good point ty. So the particle itself will not be able to travel at light speed unless the field itself is there for it to travel through. Kind of like a standing wave on water cant exist unless the water is there and the actual motion of it cant travel faster than the speed which sound can travel in water( yes standing waves can move and display particle like behaviors very analogous to quasi particles). Still could be interesting on an information communication or encryption point of view. I'm just spitballing but maybe in low gravity environment we could send the energy at the speed of light to a craft so it can throw that energy out the other direction in the form of something that produces higher immediate thrust then photons and other massless particles. Idk gotta read the papers tomorrow but thanks for bringing that up its clearing things up conceptually for me.

[@aybiss]

Another fascinating video Anton!

[@T-Baby-x2z]

Another intriguing subject presented by Petrov. Thank you

[@yvonnemiezis5199]

Fascinating, beautiful video,thanks Anton 👍❤

[@MyraSeavy]

I love seeing your videos everyday Anton! You're like a friend! 😊❤

[@ailiz7]

I love to hear all your videos!

[@benfarrell3347]

PBS space time shout out!!!! You’re the man Anton!!!

[@ivornelsson2238]

This one-direction-particle perception and interpretation fits nicely to the rest of particle physics in the Standard Model which is governed by the one-force-gravity and excluding the rest of the fundamental forces - which can explain directional motions by the electromagnetic cirquital flow.

[@user-eh6th9wj5k]

You are the GOAT on cutting edge science news!

[@jsEMCsquared]

It's go-to, not goat, silly...

[@burtbackattack]

You're not wrong. Anton is the man!

[@leoalex2001]

@@jsEMCsquaredit's goat.. not go to, little boi

[@jsEMCsquared]

@leoalex2001 when we're you born? Yesterday? Ps I just watched your favorites. It's all Russian!!! Poser and anti american! I subscribed to keep an eye on you!

[@casper191985]

@@leoalex2001you’re a little boy

[@adonisjackburns7017]

I only just connected this theory to one of my own in that I believe there are particles that only have weight when they are changing directions due to extreme magnetism or gravity, like those are magnetars and black holes. The problem being we cannot detect them at the distances we find these conditions, so more capable technologies need to be created. Loosely connects to the "island of stability" in that perhaps they only exist in those places

[@ComputerGarageLLC]

Thank you Anton. I know I requested this, but it might have already been on you to do list.

[@MichaelWalker-v2o]

Information that moves from one point to another 😊 very cool

[@mandygershon8603]

The way you describe this particle sometimes having mass makes me think it's multi-dimensional.

[@storm14k]

WTMath?!?!!? This is Element Zero! Not sure if the mass driver works but if the effects hold on a macro scale then tossing these things back and forth with a magnetic field would create propulsion! Could have sworn I'd seen something about a drive like this using a material that lost some mass when electricity was applied to it.

[@gavinbolton9551]

Love you Anton!

[@sc0or]

Well, it can break a momentum conservation law. Just imagine that we can push off from a massive particle and pull it in when it has no mass. And ideal working body for a space ship.

[@MrRlnansel]

While photons, for example, don't have mass, they do have momentum, so since the force equation is all about momentum rate of change it might not be possible to get any sort of vector modulation of net force out of these quasiparticle systems.

[@the11382]

​@@MrRlnanselPhotons only having momentum Doesn't stop solar sails from working. Needs more experiments to verify the potential uses.

[@Zeuskabob1]

The quasiparticle does, but the material likely doesn't. The net momentum of the quasiparticle and all the associated massive particles almost certainly still obeys momentum conservation.

[@MrRlnansel]

@@the11382 Of course. My point was simply that massless photons do have momentum with real-world consequences (such as solar sails actually working as you mention). I don't know exactly where that leaves these theoretically directionally massless quasiparticles, but in the absence of any other information I would suppose they too would still possess momentum no matter what direction they travel. How exactly that momentum is coupled to the whole system I couldn't say, but I feel pretty confident it does get coupled and momentum is thus conserved. It'd be really, deeply cool if somehow momentum wasn't conserved in such systems, but I would not bet on it.

[@sc0or]

@@Zeuskabob1 (( Well, at least we're getting closer and closer. I just remember that engine with a particle in a relativistic and a normal state with a different masses. This particular discovery says about the same but without an extreme acceleration.

[@cosmicraysshotsintothelight]

Hey! Wonderful Doc Petrov! I once witnessed the creation of and presence of a couple of "lightning balls" or "ball lightning". I was in my early teens and this was about 1972. I saw the bolt hit the barn roof and lightning rod and travel down the corner of the barn along the ground link. And at the same instant as that, the two balls appeared near the corner about 3 feet off the ground and slowly but chaotically danced upward about a foot and this timeline was all of about 4 seconds, and then they "popped" out. They appeared "massless". Then I recently began thinking about that, now knowing a lay person's level of atomic structure. What if ball lightning is the result of the electron stream that is a lightning bolt splits a single atom or 'destroys' it and what we see is the envelope around uncontained particles that are no longer trapped in the form of an atomic nucleus? Can you enlighten the world as to what ball lightning is or might be?

[@shapleyattractor]

so exciting or should i say de-excited, I have been intrigued with “Diracs Hole” idea, but these semi Dirac particles could reveal a literal new direction to take away mass

[@davejacob5208]

which "direction"? there are no names for "directions" in space, only in relation to other objects or fields. so I suppose in this case this "direction" is purely defined in terms of the orientation of the magnetic field?

[@coreyengdahl6253]

I have to say, watching you while sleeping makes for some great dreams. I dreamt Oumouamoua accelerated away because it was attached to the great attractor with a gravitational particle.

[@hassefx5078]

Exciting if its really confirmed - maybe in a year we know if its really repeatable or another cold fusion type discovery!

[@BiswajitBhattacharjee-up8vv]

Condense matter always pave new fundamental science. Higgs is independent from structure but the potential. But new duality in mass is very rewarding. At the speed of light.

[@mscir]

VERY interestin, thank you. Dirac was amazing to me. I liked the book about him, "The Strangest Man," by Graham Farmelo. Thse particles are veyr interesting. I wonder if they can be used in accelerators to travel at very high speeds with no mass , then be oriented to have mass just at the point of collisoin with other particles. These would make interesting particle beam weapons if they could be used that way. Or miniature space vehicles.

[@MultiSteveB]

Since magnetic field strength plays a role, I wonder what affect the insanely strong magnetic fields around black hole accretion disks and magnetars would be?

[@ankhzet]

Physicists: Whoa, we discovered quantum diode! Universe: Wh... Hey! You're not supposed to be able to do that!

[@ibeetellingya5683]

Perhaps the interstellar 'magnetic batteries' discussed earlier are full of funky mass particles or even clouds of funky crystals

[@eldraque4556]

incredible, I kinda miss studying physical chemistry

[@jeffcampbell1107]

Maybe this is the reason some of the em drives have shown reactionless thrust?

[@Matt-bh6km]

Could this be like a lenz law magnetic braking thing if not I wonder if the effect could be used as an inertial damper to allow for faster changes in speed or direction when flying

[@paul_gradenwitz]

The mass of a particle is a function of its particle wave function and the size it has in the direction of movement. Thus, a quasi particle with the shape of a disk has no mass in the direction perpendicular to the plane of the disk. See the explanation of that on my X account articles.

[@dka618]

interesting but I don't use X and will not do it (Musk populist policies pro Russia mobs and hospital bombers is not my cup of tea). Also are you contradicting this paper that says that they have no mass when moving in some direction? or the paper didn't say they move in the direction in which they have no mass?

[@JohnDouglasCrowtin-pr4ft]

What defines the exact direction. Or could it be an angle like a sail

[@Zeuskabob1]

The direction is a movement relative to the structure of the material, so changing the orientation of the material changes the direction of this behavior.

[@ralfpaul4244]

Bitte keine Logik, da kannst Du ja gleich Physik verlangen, auch wenn die Frage gut und berechtigt ist, denn wenn wir lange genug nach rechts fahren, schauen wir irgendwann wieder Links raus. MfG P.

[@audiodead7302]

Thanks Anton. A really interesting topic for a video. Of course, we all wait to see if the results turn out to be true/reproducible, etc. To me, this suggests that maybe the things we currently regard as fundamental, aren't. If a quasi particle (made up of other 'standard model' particles) is able to break laws which the 'standard model' particles have to observe, it suggests to me that the 'standard model' particles aren't 'fundamental' but more likely 'emergent'. Who agrees/disagrees/doesn't care?

[@dka618]

I don't think particles exist, they appear and disappear and connect we have no idea how. Shrodinger is BS in many ways. There are more states than we acknowledge and we don't understand at all. Solid- liquid-vapor-quantized magnetic flux and there are other states linked to quantum effects behind dual slit/teleportation/entanglement

[@Animo2006]

The way this is described kind of reminds me of the "nano-wall" in the Doom movie with Dwayne Johnson. If you could actively control which direction the quasi-particle moved, perhaps something like a nano-wall would be possible. (Although ridiculously expensive and thus impractical lol).

[@MarcelPirosca]

What a half-massed explanation

[@TrevyBurgess]

Where can you buy that amazing material? You could sell it in your store. It could be used in jewellery.

[@bruceelegge]

Not sure it qualifies as massless. However it may be an early qualifying material used to repel forces found in something like a black hole which may and will have future uses in space travel. Keep in mind that a black hole can be the size of a sand grain but have enormous mass.

[@bruceelegge]

Sidenote: Buckyballs can act like a fluid near zero degrees Kelvin and can offer excellent cooling properties for previously mentioned materials. Luckily space is a cool environment offering many benefits for temperature sensitive materials. Such as superconductors.

[@thetinkerist]

This could have great implication of how we would think about neutron stars or magnetars

[@wilsonquevedo8711]

superb video👌👌

[@chevasit]

Very good 👍👍👍

[@unchad-estman9522]

This could become a sophisticated navigation system.

[@bartekes8852]

I got the same in room temperature. I have a mass in the morning getting up, but when my buddy ask to go for a beer I can reach lightspeed easily.

[@gregoryclifford6938]

Or would a ringer-washer accept linen from one direction and not from another? Some materials align domains favorably, some not. Penetrating a headwind is different that riding with a tailwind, so what is different about those match-ups in size or polarity or….what?

[@phaedrussocrates7636]

Thank you

[@markmuller7962]

Maybe we'll find out that certain quantum fields have some sort frequencies changing the particles properties depending on the direction of movement :D

[@ralfpaul4244]

Quanten sind Teilchen, Masse>0 * Geradeaus^2 * Rotation^2 * Schwingung/Frequenz^2, welche an die Stelle der Gravitation tritt, da wir keine Masse-Trägheit haben. MfG P.

[@MCsCreations]

Fascinating!

[@dustinswatsons9150]

Maybe the higgs field has a charge that restricts the particle the other directions but not the others

[@Khashayarissi-ob4yj]

Hoping for more videos.

[@christopherrogers6194]

It could be used for an efficient interstellar engine, in one direction (the direction of reset) it would have zero mass which would not cause an opposite equal reaction. It would then be reversed to gain mass as it is sent towards the mass being moved and after the inertia is transferred to the spacecraft it would reverse direction losing mass to start the process over.

[@kabaduck]

This was exactly what I was looking for

[@euchiron]

Tractor beams, inertial propulsion... This has so many possibilities!

[@Zeuskabob1]

It's unlikely that the movement of the quasiparticle through its massive and massless regimes would result in a net acceleration. The particles responsible for this quasiparticle have mass, and their movement likely counteracts any momentum change in the quasiparticle while it's massive, while their movement has no net momentum change when it moves while it's massless.

Consider how lights work with filters and polarizing effects. In this case you have a light wave form with weight. You are measuring the weight at times when the light form is interacting with our dimension. We can measure its properties at that time. When it phases out of our dimension but leaves a resonance form we see as light, that does not have weight because weight is the displacement of space, not actual time. That is my take

[@michaelrulewicz5390]

Possibly gives us insight on how to interact with the Higgs field.

[@frinoffrobis]

everything is on a higgs field

[@Zeuskabob1]

That's really interesting. I wonder! My understanding is that the higgs field interferes with the acceleration of particles through it depending on the strength of their interaction with the field. This strength of interaction is measured as inertial or rest mass. Since this quasiparticle acts massless, it seems not to experience interference with its acceleration, and thus any force applied to it would cause it to move at the speed of light. Why most quasiparticles don't behave this way, yet this one does, is a true mystery.

[@ianstopher9111]

This masslessness is the lack of an effective mass in a condensed matter system. It is not the same as rest mass.

[@ralfpaul4244]

E=mc² = m=E/c² funktioniert auch ohne Higgs und obwohl ich die Messprotokolle gesehen habe weiß ich nicht wie man die Nummer verkauft hat, aber auch hier hat man das Prinzip der Masse nicht verstanden. MfG P.

[@ZionistWorldOrder]

Anton if you do it on purpose or not i am loving it. Electric universe and ufo tech every other day! ❤ is it just me or does this line up with the ufo claims of electron envelope displacement around a ship that pulses this with magnetic fields using a plasma around the ship as medium, plasma can generate orders of magnitude stronger magnetic fields than ordinary matter can, and even more when the plasma medium is pumped along with the magnetic field. This is how you achieve warp locally what some claim you need energy mass of jupiter to achieve..by ordinary barionic matter sure but by pulsing the field and the very medium it is in which can only be done with plasma then it IS possible. This envelope of electrons acting like a big particle around the ship "cuts it off" from speed limiting laws and simultaneously takes care of inertia! All electrons within the envelope, also you in the ship, have set landau values that get inertia dampened by being moved together as one = inertia dampening included in this field propulsion solution! we see this in nature, mainstream calls it Landau Dampening..

[@chipsafan1]

Fascinating

[@RionFortran]

Another point for Rincewind's Infinity Ouros Borous unified field cosmological model!

[@allfunnydogsstories2129]

5:53 Wesley Crusher’s warp bubble 😊

[@kob8634]

I'm trying to understand how this doesn't add up to a chunk of something that has inherent linear momentum not unlike the angular momentum of an electron. It seems to me all one would need to do is figure out how to "magnetize" it (get all the light-speed movement to line up and all the orthogonals to line up too) and this should be able to power a little boat or something. So, help me understand how this complies with what we understand about perpetual motion? Is there some rule that says these internal structures cannot cohere?

[@tetraquark2402]

Hoping for reactionless drive applications

[@anaberl4141]

West: we don't know what it can be used for. China: 2025 oh excuse me world, we made some spaceships and we are in alpha centaur.

[@florptytoo]

Indeed

[@ianmurray9792]

I wonder if this could be applied to the Casimir effect in the vacuum test and then add the hertz to see what happens fun i must try it out

[@ToneyCrimson]

I read the tumbnail as "...that becomes missiles". 😱

[@winstongludovatz111]

How is this "direction" defined? In the frame of the particle? In its own frame it is not moving at all, other frames we have a problem that this needs to be Lorenz invariant.

[@markd.s.8625]

within the crystal is my guess, but indeed anton didnt specify

[@ianstopher9111]

The crystal can already define certain axes that break invariance plus the orientation of an external electric field breaks the symmetry. Your own inertial frame of reference is not as significant as the preferred directions imposed by the matrix and experimental setup.

[@dexterisabo3137]

Sounds like the heart of an impulse drive from Star Trek. Like you feed it high speed and massless from one direction and it picks up its equivalent of a rocket's ejection mass as it flies around the dilithium crystal. Sounds like the EV version of an ION drive. I wonder how it would work if hooked up to nuclear power source? ION drives carry fuel and that adds weight and limits how far you can go but it sounds like this generates mass out of electrons rather than out of the heavy and bulky part of the atom. These crystals sound like they reverse Einstein. Like you shine the electron flashlight at the magic prism and it ejects the M part of E=MC2. But what does the output look like? Why does it feel like a mass without a physical form is more like a force and akin to what we call magnetism? Unless physical matter is manifesting as the output, these crystals sound like a different kinda magnet

[@renezirkel]

Its like money. When its moves towards me, it has a lot of inertness, but its leaving me at lightning speed.

[@LordDustinDeWynd]

Howdy from Temple, Texas, USA!

[@KenLieck]

You got to say it as one word like Britt Daniel from the band Spoon: TEMPLETEXAS!

[@mandygershon8603]

Is it possible that the particle is losing mass in a certain direction because it's traveling along an electromagnetic field line?

[@andrewbrady3139]

I’m thinking: coat a saucer shaped ship and you can get up to light speed…in a couple hundred years? Worth a shot!

[@dartviader6292]

Maybe we could use this phenomenon to create new way of propulsion?

[@carloc352]

I cannot understand in reference to which direction: maybe an axis of the crystal?

[@michaelteegarden4116]

An interesting way to temporarily destroy mass (or remove it) and return it back again.

[@Zeuskabob1]

All the mass of the material remains when the quasiparticle changes direction. The quasiparticle simply inherits some of the mass from the material, then returns it to the material when it moves in its special way.

[@gregoryclifford6938]

Is that the difference between airspeed and groundspeed?

[@itsjavaman]

So you're saying these are magneticly controlled? Can they be polarized?

[@noelstarchild]

Bllown away by these facts Anton Petrov. Directional masslessness travelling at light speed is simply staggering. You stated when perpendicular, would that be to gravity I ask?

[@Zeuskabob1]

To the lattice of the material the quasiparticle is born from.

[@D3adP00I]

okay how long before we combine quasipartles into quantum computing?

[@Zeuskabob1]

Cooper pairs are a form of quasiparticle, and they're used in superconducting qubits, one of the most well-researched forms.

[@Name-di3ku]

All I understood from this video is that they created a crystal of Ezo and managed to cause the mass effect

[@Bob-of-Zoid]

Just a few more discoveries, and I can finally make the Kazoidmonizer!!!🥳🥳🥳

[@CrRodney1]

So was the temperature of the universe just before the big bang 1 or less degrees Kelvin or extremely hot?

[@stevenkarnisky411]

Quantum mechanics won't even repair my car. They just turn in one direction and disappear. That is as close to understanding this as I can get. Thank you, Anton for teaching us just how bizzarre the universe actually is!

[@flowerpt]

Are you sure you actually have a quantum mechanic?

[@Ghost_70026]

Can massless particles clump together to form solid object? I'm curious.

[@TheTruthPlease100]

Quasiparticles are awesome!

[@Alondro77]

This is potentially up-ending, because it implies directionality could exist in the very structure of the universe itself. That could blow away the idea that the Big Bang was symmetrical in all directions, when quantum effects reigned. It could even explain the matter-antimatter asymmetry if the effect is more commonplace that we realize.

[@willinton06]

Exactly what I was thinking, maybe, if directionality is baked into the structure of the universe so many fun questions arise

[@marcoottina654]

It seems that the directionality depends on the orientation of the molecule

[@Zeuskabob1]

@@marcoottina654 Exactly. It's a direction relative to the lattice structure of the material. As long as the material doesn't have a preferred orientation in space, this says nothing about such a preferred direction and Galilean relativity still holds.

[@ralfpaul4244]

Eigentlich zeigt es uns nur wie wenig die Jungs von Physik verstehen, besonders wenn es um die Funktionen, von Masse, Bewegung Raum und Zeit und deren dimensionalen Zusammenhang geht. Was in der Physik oft als Dimension beschrieben wird, sind Multiplikatoren der Energie, welche sich in ihrer Form unterscheiden müssen, da ja gleiche Kräfte addiert werden. Da die Energie eines geschlossenen Systems konstant ist, schließt das einen Urknall genau genommen aus. MfG P.

[@Alondro77]

@@Zeuskabob1 The fact that it is a quantum effect does mean it COULD potentially show up in ways we don't currently expect. We currently have no idea how the earliest moments of the cosmos were 'structured'. If this effect, or one similar, came into play, it would immediately solve many cosmological mysteries. So don't discount it just yet, as was also the case when microRNAs were first found in plants. The DOGMA was so strongly against it, it took years to break through the wall of resistance. Now it's known that microRNAs are crucial in ALL complex organisms and play major regulatory roles in thousands of gene pathways.