Anybody heard of Quasi-Crystals ?

Just learned of this today

http://wwwphy.princeton.edu/~steinh/quasicrystals.html

Fascinating stuff

 

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What do they do and what property they have

 

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Not sure , you'll have to do more research on this topic yourself , just google the topic

I gave you one site , there are many more

But what I learned from the interview , is that , it is possible for computers to be run by light instead of electrons

Therefore of course they would run much faster

 

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http://www.jcrystal.com/steffenweber/qc.html

This another site on the subject

 

Another site

http://www.jcrystal.com/steffenweber/qc.html

 

Quasicrystal is a structure that is ordered but not periodic, so they have a patterns throughout but that does not repeat overall. The first such crystal was found in Russia: Al(63)Cu(24)Fe(13).

 

Yes, a 3 - space instantiation of a quasiperiodic plane tiling, A.K.A. "Penrose Tilings". The base diamond pattern set falls out in 2 space if you attempt to tile the plane with pentagons. There are forbidden placements.