What's a time crystal? It seems like science fiction, it's a new kind of matter made by scientists that doesn't obey traditional rules!Kim Horcher and Francis Maxwell (TYT Sports, What the Flick) break it down.
"It’s no longer just a wild theory. Two independent teams of physicists have followed a recipe to build the world’s first versions of an enigmatic form of matter – time crystals.
MIT physicist and Nobel laureate Frank Wilczek first speculated about the existence of time crystals in 2012, while teaching a class on ordinary crystals, such as salt, or snowflakes. In a typical crystal, the atoms or molecules are tightly arranged in regularly repeating patterns in three-dimensional space, resembling a lattice."
Read more from New Scientist: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2119804-worlds-first-time-crystals-cooked-up-using-new-recipe/
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