The Stone Inside Your Phone
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How quartz quietly keeps time for our watches, our computers, AI and crypto, and what it can teach us about steadiness Hello, friends. Pick up your phone for a moment. Before you scroll, just hold it.
How quartz quietly keeps time for our watches, our computers, AI and crypto, and what it can teach us about steadiness Hello, friends. Pick up your phone for a moment. Before you scroll, just hold it. Inside that smooth glass and metal there is a tiny piece of stone, and it has been keeping you on time all day. That stone is quartz, the same crystal many of us keep on a windowsill or beside the bed. A crystal that answers back In 1880, two young French brothers, Pierre and Jacques Curie, discove
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