Friday, May 04, 2018

Time crystals!

This is extremely cool.

Ordinary crystals such as salt or quartz are examples of three-dimensional, ordered spatial crystals. Their atoms are arranged in a repeating system, something scientists have known for a century. Time crystals, first identified in 2016, are different. Their atoms spin periodically, first in one direction and then in another, as a pulsating force is used to flip them. That's the "ticking." In addition, the ticking in a time crystal is locked at a particular frequency, even when the pulse flips are imperfect.

It ticks! So cool!

The Phantom

2 comments:

WiFi Lunchbox Guy said...

Do note that bit in the comments about the FBI seizing research, and the bit about their being a political agency.

I can see a future generation of science types saying F*ck it and emmigrating.

The Phantom said...

Greetings WiFi. I missed that comment. FBI is misbehaving? Do tell. ~:D