rdelmonico
01-18-2014, 04:43 AM
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/04/time-crystals/
In February 2012, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Frank Wilczek decided to go public with a strange and, he worried, somewhat embarrassing idea. Impossible as it seemed, Wilczek had developed an apparent proof of “time crystals” — physical structures that move in a repeating pattern, like minute hands rounding clocks, without expending energy or ever winding down. Unlike clocks or any other known objects, time crystals derive their movement not from stored energy but from a break in the symmetry of time, enabling a special form of perpetual motion.
Whereas in a crystal the atoms position in space is reduced or limited. (see quantum non-locality)
In a time crystal it is the atomic particles position in time is reduced or limited.
In February 2012, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Frank Wilczek decided to go public with a strange and, he worried, somewhat embarrassing idea. Impossible as it seemed, Wilczek had developed an apparent proof of “time crystals” — physical structures that move in a repeating pattern, like minute hands rounding clocks, without expending energy or ever winding down. Unlike clocks or any other known objects, time crystals derive their movement not from stored energy but from a break in the symmetry of time, enabling a special form of perpetual motion.
Whereas in a crystal the atoms position in space is reduced or limited. (see quantum non-locality)
In a time crystal it is the atomic particles position in time is reduced or limited.