Time crystals are pretty fascinating. They look just like norm | SHIFT

Time crystals are pretty fascinating. They look just like normal crystals, but they sport an additional, peculiar property.

In regular crystals, the atoms are arranged in a fixed, three-dimensional grid structure, like the atomic lattice of a diamond or quartz crystal. These repeating lattices can differ in configuration, but they don't move around very much: they only repeat spatially.

In time crystals, the atoms behave a bit differently. They oscillate, spinning first in one direction, and then the other. These oscillations - referred to as 'ticking' - are locked to a regular and particular frequency. So, where the structure of regular crystals repeats in space, in time crystals it repeats in space and time.


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