Post by sherlew99 on Oct 8, 2016 11:40:11 GMT -6
Science alert
Physicists just created the world's first time crystal
These things actually exist!
BEC CREW
7 OCT 2016
Just last month, physicists made the best case yet for why time crystals - hypothetical structures that have movement without energy - could technically exist as physical objects.
And now, four years after they were first proposed, scientists have managed to add a fourth dimension - the movement of time - to a crystal for the first time, giving it the ability to act as a kind of perpetual 'time-keeper'.
Physicists just created the world's first time crystal
These things actually exist!
BEC CREW
7 OCT 2016
Just last month, physicists made the best case yet for why time crystals - hypothetical structures that have movement without energy - could technically exist as physical objects.
And now, four years after they were first proposed, scientists have managed to add a fourth dimension - the movement of time - to a crystal for the first time, giving it the ability to act as a kind of perpetual 'time-keeper'.
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