Here is something yanked straight from the jaws of science fiction – and yet this is real science…

 

‘Time Crystals’ Could Upend Physicists’ Theory of Time

 

BY NATALIE WOLCHOVER, SIMONS SCIENCE NEWS (via Wired)

 

 

 

“In February 2012, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Frank Wilczek decided to go public with a strange and, he worried, somewhat embarrassing idea. Impossible as it seemed, Wilczek had developed an apparent proof of “time crystals” — physical structures that move in a repeating pattern, like minute hands rounding clocks, without expending energy or ever winding down. Unlike clocks or any other known objects, time crystals derive their movement not from stored energy but from a break in the symmetry of time, enabling a special form of perpetual motion…”

 

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