{"id":161971,"date":"2023-04-12T06:22:18","date_gmt":"2023-04-12T11:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/a-new-kind-of-time-crystal-has-been-created-that-does-interesting-things-to-light"},"modified":"2023-04-12T06:22:18","modified_gmt":"2023-04-12T11:22:18","slug":"a-new-kind-of-time-crystal-has-been-created-that-does-interesting-things-to-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/a-new-kind-of-time-crystal-has-been-created-that-does-interesting-things-to-light","title":{"rendered":"A New Kind of Time Crystal Has Been Created That Does Interesting Things to Light"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-new-kind-of-time-crystal-has-been-created-that-does-interesting-things-to-light2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists are still getting to grips with the ins and outs of strange materials known as time crystals; structures that buzz with movement for eternity. Now a new variety might help deepen our understanding of the perplexing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/states-of-matter\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">state of matter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Just as regular crystals are atoms and molecules that repeat over a volume of space, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/time-crystal\">time crystals<\/a> are collections of particles that tick-tock in patterns over a duration of time in ways that initially seem to defy science.<\/p>\n<p>Theorized in 2012 before being observed in the lab for the first time <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/physicists-just-created-the-world-s-first-time-crystal\">just four years later<\/a>, researchers have been busy tinkering with the structures to probe deeper foundations of particle physics and uncover potential applications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists are still getting to grips with the ins and outs of strange materials known as time crystals; structures that buzz with movement for eternity. Now a new variety might help deepen our understanding of the perplexing state of matter. Just as regular crystals are atoms and molecules that repeat over a volume of space, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-161971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161971\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}