Time crystals can be grown at home
Published studies (
https://bit.ly/3EK4see) have shown that time
crystals exist not only as a product of scientists' laboratory
activities. It turned out that such structures can also form in the
natural environment, while the process itself is much simpler
than experts imagined. This is a great success for humanity:
Wilczek's crystals can be used for practical purposes, for example,
to create ultra-precise atomic clocks, new generation gyroscopes
and other devices. Time crystals exhibit very strange activity when
exposed to electromagnetic waves. In such a crystal, all the
molecules rotate in a certain direction, and with each new EM
pulse, it changes. But even if the impulses are unsystematic, the
direction of rotation still changes at regular intervals, due to
which time crystals can be used as a measure of time intervals,
that is, as a universal clock. New work (
https://bit.ly/3CH62wM)
by physicists from Yale University proved that synthesizing time
crystals is so easy that a child can do it. They found that temporary
crystals are formed inside ordinary crystals of monoammonium
phosphate, which is often used in young chemist's kits and other
educational toys, thanks to which a beautiful crystal can be grown
at home.
