Computers are magic.

No, really. There's a crystal at the heart of it doing all the computation, with some support crystals sending power to it and handling some data for it, and a timing crystal keeping everything working in sync. There's countless small liquid crystals acting as a display, changing colors in sync to form images.

@Efi I'm pretty sure FR-4 isn't crystalline, and there's a good bit of glass which is, well, glassy.

@Efi There's polysilicon too, though that isn't amorphous but polycrystalline. I honestly don't know about the metals, but they're definitely not single crystals. Hmm. I am thinking far too far into this.

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@Efi also in relation to electrons being magic, just get into quantum ~~magic~~ physics

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