⏳ #Scientists Built Something That “Ticks Forever”… Inside a #QuantumMachine
What if scientists created something that moves… without ever using energy*? Sounds impossible, right?
Inside a powerful #quantum #computer, researchers managed to create a strange new form of matter #timecrystal**. But this isn’t a crystal you can touch. It’s something far more mysterious. Instead of repeating patterns in space like a normal crystal, this one repeats in **time** — almost like a #clock that keeps ticking without winding down.
At first glance, it sounds like the laws of physics are being broken. A system that never stops? Never loses energy? But here’s the twist… it only works under extremely controlled conditions, deep inside a quantum system, far from our everyday world.
So no, this doesn’t mean time travel is here. But it does mean scientists have discovered something completely new — a hidden rhythm of nature that wasn’t known before.And the real question is… if time itself can “crystallize,” what else about our universe are we still missing?
Source
Google #QuantumAI, & collaborators. (2021). *Observation of a discrete time crystal on a quantum #processor*. #Nature.
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