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Title    Blueprint for a Time Crystal
Date    Monday July 06 2015, @06:42PM
Author    janrinok
Topic   
from the is-it-made-of-kyber? dept.
https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=15/07/06/144229

fleg writes:

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.


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  1. "fleg" - https://soylentnews.org/~fleg/
  2. "New Scientist" - http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn22028-computer-that-could-outlive-the-universe-a-step-closer.html
  3. " Original Submission " - https://soylentnews.org/submit.pl?op=viewsub&subid=8156

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