How Crystals Work

Stuff You Should Know

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Society & Culture

4.6 • 79.3K Ratings

🗓️ 21 May 2019

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

In a new age shop or on display at the Smithsonian, there are varying interpretations of what crystals can be used for. But at their base, they are a thumb in the eye to entropy, a perfectly ordered piece of matter.

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0:16.4	I'm Wes Kosova.
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0:23.6	Listen to The Big Take on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen.
0:31.3	Welcome to Stuff You Should Know, a production of I Heart Radio's House Stuff Works.
0:41.2	Hey and welcome to the podcast.
0:42.8	I'm Josh Clark and there's Charles W. Chuck Bryant and there's Jerry over there.
0:47.2	And this is Crystal.
0:48.8	How are you doing, man?
0:53.4	Well, what do you think?
0:55.7	This is, it's okay.
0:57.7	The source material is not great.
0:59.7	We won't say where we got it.
1:02.4	But I think that once we kind of make it through the structure part, we'll be home free.
1:10.9	Pleasants, I mean, Pleasants, crystals.
1:12.9	Like they're so worth understanding, going to the trouble of understanding because they are,
1:20.0	basically a finger in the eye to the tendency of the universe to move toward chaos and disorder.
1:30.5	Because a crystal is the most ordered structure in the universe.
1:36.1	It's a pattern that repeats over and over and over again so much so that in a crystal,
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