From New Scientist
Ordinary crystals are three-dimensional objects whose atoms are arranged in regular, repeating patterns – just like table salt. They adopt this structure because it uses the lowest amount of energy possible to maintain.
Earlier this year, Frank Wilczek, a theoretical physicist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, speculated that a similar structure might repeat regularly in the fourth dimension – time.
Wilczek has also theorised that a working time crystal could be made into a computer, with different rotational states standing in for the 0s and 1s of a conventional computer.
The article includes a description (by Tongcang Li from the University of California, and others) of how such a time crystal could be built. Though it will be tricky because building the crystal will need temperatures close to absolute zero.
While Wilczek points out that the heat-death of the universe is, in principle, "very user friendly" for this kind of experiment because it would be cold and dark, there are other issues to consider.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 06 2015, @11:05PM
Very confused? That's timecube for ya.
The website does exist, though - I just loaded it to check.
(Score: 1) by FrogBlast on Monday July 06 2015, @11:45PM
I just had it load, then get replaced half a second later with a sketchy search page. I'm as enamored of 4 Corner Days as the next man, but something is definitely amiss over there.
(Score: 2) by The Archon V2.0 on Tuesday July 07 2015, @01:16PM
> I'm as enamored of 4 Corner Days as the next man, but something is definitely amiss over there.
More than usual, anyway.