Temporal symmetry of nature violation according to nobel prize winner

[Superposed_Cat]

"..his equations indicated that atoms could indeed form a regularly repeating lattice in time, returning to their initial arrangement only after discrete (rather than continuous) intervals, thereby breaking time symmetry..."

I was wondering about the theory's validity and if you had heard of it?


http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/04/time-crystals/

P.S. I don't know if this is the right section.

 

[TumblingDice]

Comments in this thread - opened when the paper and dissension were published - here:
https://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=640992

 

[Superposed_Cat]

Thanks, so they been disproved yet? The previous thread is old.

 

[TumblingDice]

I'm not sure that there's any big movement to work on disproving the conjecture. The original info release was around Sept 2012. The article you linked had a quote from one of the Berkeley team that, " it may take “anywhere between three and infinity years” to complete, depending on funding or unforeseen technical difficulties..."

That was April - I couldn't find anything newer than you did!

 

[Superposed_Cat]

I don't have an arxix or phy review account so could not view it. thanks again.

 

[Vanadium 50]

Please use the already existing thread that TumblingDice linked to.