Far out! Here is the 13 second video from the Max Planck Society in all its glory: https://youtu.be/kUY3TglEUCU
Honestly, the video just looks like someone re-inverted an image several times over using a fade. What am I missing?
Physicists have filmed the oscillation of a time crystal
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#12Far out! Here is the 13 second video from the Max Planck Society in all its glory: https://youtu.be/kUY3TglEUCU
Honestly, the video just looks like someone re-inverted an image several times over using a fade. What am I missing?
> Time crystals should be stable and coherent over long time periods, because they - theoretically - oscillate at their lowest possible energy state. The team's research shows that driven magnonic time crystals can be easily manipulated, opening a new way to reconfigure time crystals. This could open up the state of matter for a range of practical applications.
> "Classical crystals have a very broad field of applications," said physicist Joachim Gräfe of the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems.
> "Now, if crystals can interact not only in space but also in time, we add another dimension of possible applications. The potential for communication, radar or imaging technology is huge."
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#13How do Time Crystals differ from the quartz crystals used for time keeping in electronics? Is the only difference that Time Crystals oscillate without needing an electric field?
I also wonder how a time crystal is different from a harmonic oscillator.
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#14In the experiment, the crystals were driven by RF excitation. Do time crystals generally require a constant energy source to oscillate? I would assume not, since they're called crystals...
Also, is the oscillation frequency temperature dependent?
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#15Does anybody else agree the name "Time Crystal" could be better somehow?
yes, it sounds too mystic for science
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#16>filmed at up to 40 billion frames per second
that's quite a feat on anyone's watch
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#17haha I cant wait to hear about this from my local rock/crystal dealer ooommmmmmmm shiva Shankarrrr mahatmahariiii ganjaaaaaa
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#18Does anybody else agree the name "Time Crystal" could be better somehow?
TimeSplitters Future Perfect - Cortez, get the time crystals!
Re: Physicists have filmed the oscillation of a time crystal
#19How do Time Crystals differ from the quartz crystals used for time keeping in electronics? Is the only difference that Time Crystals oscillate without needing an electric field?
Normally, a system (like a quartz) which is driven by an external frequency, oscillates at the same or a multiple of the driving frequency. This is because the external conditions are symmetric under a time translation (i.e. a delay) by the period duration. This symmetry is normally preserved by the system.
A time crystal, however, will oscillate with a fraction (or rational multiple) of the driving frequency. This breaks the original time translation symmetry.
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#20When quantum mechanics are involved, I feel like someone from 400 years ago might feel today using a smartphone. And probably as a society we are now like starting to experiment with electricity. I wonder what will be the smartphones in that future.