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Two Time Crystals Have been Joined

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time crystalsBrooks Agnew – Physicists have just taken an amazing step towards quantum devices that sound like something out of science fiction.

For the first time, isolated groups of particles behaving like bizarre states of matter known as time crystals have been linked into a single, evolving system that could be incredibly useful in quantum computing.

Following the first observation of the interaction between two time crystals, detailed in a paper two years ago, this is the next step towards potentially harnessing time crystals for practical purposes, such as quantum information processing. Continue reading →

A New State Of Matter? Time Crystals…

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time crystalsJoseph P Farrell – This is one of those stories which I have to blog about, simply because it plays into so much of the type of speculations that I and the readers of this website like to indulge in. But first, a big thank you to C.V. for spotting this one and sending it along; it made my day!

The reason it made my day is because “time crystals,” which have long been theorized in quantum mechanics, have taken a major step toward actually having been – for a few moments – created by Google.

Regular readers, or members, of this website or readers of my books will have heard me sometimes speak of the “lattice of space-time” and so on, implying the idea that space and time have properties best resembling a crystal. The idea isn’t a new one in fact; one can encounter it in ancient and medieval lore and texts. But now there’s a new wrinkle, so what, exactly, is a time crystal? Continue reading →

Metallic Hydrogen, Time Crystals, And Hyper-Dimensional Speculation

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crystalsJoseph P Farrell – First off, a caveat: by hyper-dimensional speculation I mean something far beyond our usual “high octane” speculation, and perhaps bordering on “sheer fantasy”, but falling just short of it. In any case, this has been one of those weeks where I truly do wish I had a staff that could blog about all the stories I wanted to blog about, because there are so many. Alas, I am only one person, and have to make my selections, but these two stories were at the very top of my list, not only for what they say, but also for their implications, and the context in which they occurred.

Let’s look at the first article that began to flood my email in box about a new type of matter which has just been confirmed: time crystals:

Scientists have confirmed a brand new form of matter: time crystals

So, in addition to the usual states of matter – solid, liquid, gas, plasma – we may now add a fifth, the time crystal, or to be more precise: non-equilibrium matter, a form of matter which in its ground state, oscillates, in other words, a regular lattice structure repeated not only in space such as an ordinary crystal like carborundum or diamond, but also in time as well, and this structure apparently exists without the consumption of energy to create motion:

First predicted by Nobel-Prize winning theoretical physicist Frank Wilczek back in 2012, time crystals are structures that appear to have movement even at their lowest energy state, known as a ground state.

Usually when a material is in ground state, also known as the zero-point energy of a system, it means movement should theoretically be impossible, because that would require it to expend energy. Continue reading →