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How do Crystals "work"?

geni said:
Normaly missue of words such and energy and vibration are involved. If they want to appear with it they will use the word quantum.
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Well, if you don't nitick definitions, some crystals do transform energy to vibration, and vibration to energy. But it is a misuse, or perhaps a misapplication, of the words. Crystals won't give you "good vibrations" or "more energy".
 
DevilsAdvocate said:
Well, if you don't nitick definitions, some crystals do transform energy to vibration, and vibration to energy. But it is a misuse, or perhaps a misapplication, of the words. Crystals won't give you "good vibrations" or "more energy".
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Am I correct in thinking that the crystals we are talking about here actually convert kenetic energy into an electrical current?
 
Taffer said:
He said "the powers" is to do with vibrations, which it is not. The clock speed is regulated by a vibrating crystal, yes, but not the actual "power" of the CPU.
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He said:
The power level of a computer of game system like PS2, I think is based on the rate of vibration of it's CPU
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It was a general, non-technical, statement. I interpret "power level" as a "layman's" term for "how fast my game system goes". Which is more or less right. The speed of your games will be affected by the speed of your CPU, and the spped of your CPU will be affected by the clock speed, and the clock speed will be afffected by the oscialltion of the crystal.
 
DevilsAdvocate said:
He said:It was a general, non-technical, statement. I interpret "power level" as a "layman's" term for "how fast my game system goes". Which is more or less right. The speed of your games will be affected by the speed of your CPU, and the spped of your CPU will be affected by the clock speed, and the clock speed will be afffected by the oscialltion of the crystal.
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Fair enough. I took his statement to mean, so to speak, the 'potential' power of a CPU is based upon crystals. IIRC the crystal only limits the clock speed so, as you say, "it doesn't get ahead of itself". My bad, I guess. :o
 
DevilsAdvocate said:
See Wikipedia-Piezoelectricity
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Piezoelectricity is the ability of certain crystals to generate a voltage in response to applied mechanical stress.
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So, basically, I was right. Piezoelectric crystals generate an electric voltage, not generic "energy".

ETA: Being lazy, could you give me a very quick idea of how much current can be generated by a piezoelectric crystal?
 
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Taffer said:
Fair enough. I took his statement to mean, so to speak, the 'potential' power of a CPU is based upon crystals. IIRC the crystal only limits the clock speed so, as you say, "it doesn't get ahead of itself". My bad, I guess. :o
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Of course there are ways to overclock systems.
 
Taffer said:
So, basically, I was right. Piezoelectric crystals generate an electric voltage, not generic "energy".
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Yeah. That's what I meant by "nitpick defintions". You have to generalize the defintion of of "energy" a bit. But in layman's terms, it doesn't seem unreasonable that a chunk of crystal that can start a gass grill would be described as giving off "energy".
 
Taffer said:
a bunch of big fans in the side™.
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Hey! Fans vibrate too. And, oooh, the energy they give off. Cures fibromyalgia, heat stroke, and hyperpyrexia. Fans contact universal life energy, which is very pure and has a high vibration. The fans raise the energy field of any lower vibration, thereby activating the body's own natural ability to heal itself.

http://www.holistic-centre.com/therapy/crystal_healing.htm
 
One of the explanations I've encountered is the piezzoelertic effect. (Although I thought this effect was particular to quartz, apparently it applies to all types of cryastal.) The only problem is ceramic is a much better material, but who ever heard of healing ceramic?
 
Actually, most inorganic chemists would attest to the healing power of crystals. For the reason that once well-formed crystals of a material are grown, an X-ray diffraction may be performed that gives an unequivocal representation of the structure of the species, complete with all structural parameters (this is also called structure determination by "non-sporting means").

So in this sense crystals do represent "light, purity, and truth", and they do serve to "harmonize you energy matrix" (whatever that is).

Of course crystals might be sometimes difficult to grow, and crystals of large protein molecules might be exceptionally difficult to obtain.
 
geni said:
Of course there are ways to overclock systems.
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Not to get all serious, but this is sort of misleading. To overclock a CPU means to push it past it's tested limit. In other words, you can take a 2ghz CPU and push it to 2.5, beyond it's tested limits but you can't push it any faster than the clock. So, if your motherboard's upper limit is, say 2.2 ghz then the fastest you be able to "overclock" your 2 ghz CPU is 2.2 ghz.

You young whippersnappers should have experienced the days when to speed up your 8086 processor you'd "score" a faster oscillator and had to solder it on.
 
c4ts said:
One of the explanations I've encountered is the piezzoelertic effect. (Although I thought this effect was particular to quartz, apparently it applies to all types of cryastal.) The only problem is ceramic is a much better material, but who ever heard of healing ceramic?
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You may be on to something there. Clay is way cheap. I'll make various shapes of clay and bake them with pleasing glazes and offer them as a more finely-tuned way of aligning your chakras. Way better than the "natural" crystals which always contain flaws. Mine would be finely handcrafted by a healing master with credentials from his own church and garaunteed to have some effect or your money back. Of course, a vague feeling of foolishness is an effect, so I'll never have any returns. I can even personalize them. What a great idea.
 
The power of a computer is related to the processing power of the CPU. However many magaherts it runs on is however powerful the system is. That's what I meant, that if the COU runs on more megahertz, you will have more colors, more characters, etc. on the screen at the same time

Don't you remeber the old Nintendo ads, "now you're playing with power"
 
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