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I was reading this interesting article at Wikipedia about recent work by Nobel laureate and professor at MIT Frank Wilczek in 2012:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space-time_crystal
It sounds like some scientists are close to actually making some of these crystals:
Could you please explain to me at a basic level what is special about these crystals, and why are scientists experimenting with them? Thanks.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space-time_crystal
It sounds like some scientists are close to actually making some of these crystals:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space-time_crystal#cite_note-FOOTNOTEOuellette2017-11University of California, Berkeley put forward a concrete proposal that would allow time crystals to be created in a laboratory environment.[c] Yao's blueprint was then used by two teams, a group led by Christopher Monroe at the University of Maryland[d] and a group led by Mikhail Lukin at Harvard university,[e] who were both able to successfully create a time crystal. Both experiments have been accepted for publication in peer reviewed journals.[6]
Could you please explain to me at a basic level what is special about these crystals, and why are scientists experimenting with them? Thanks.
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