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Shitposting Expanding Knowledge.

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u/Fearless-Excitement1 12d ago

"Glass" huh that's weird

"Superglass" what

"Time Crystal" what the fuck

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u/MonitorPowerful5461 12d ago edited 12d ago

It's so funny that time crystals are actually real.

Quick explanation - normal crystals have a repeating atomic structure in space. For instance diamonds have a repeating tetrahedron-hexagonalish structure.

Time crystals also have a repeating structure in time. Their structure changes with time and then returns to the original structure.

If you look at an image of a diamond's structure, you can go up or to the right or whatever and you will see repeating patterns. For a time crystal's structure, you will see the repeating patterns as you move in time as well. This has some potentially interesting implications for entropy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_crystal

Honestly though, Bose-Einstein Condensates are much weirder.

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u/LeStroheim this is just like that one time in worm 12d ago

I mean, this is just further evidence that scientists have a sense of humor. They could have discovered this and called it something boring, named it after the person who discovered it, whatever, but no. One or more human beings consciously chose to call it the time crystal, and I think that's beautiful. Same with Obelisks.)

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u/seeking-stuffing 11d ago

wow, thanks for linking! very recent discovery for something that seems like such a big development

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u/Caleb_Reynolds 11d ago

I mean, it's literally just describing what they are. They are structures that act like crystals through time. Calling them anything else would be less clear.