{"id":18112,"date":"2015-10-04T17:10:19","date_gmt":"2015-10-05T00:10:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/computer-that-could-outlive-the-universe-a-step-closer"},"modified":"2017-06-04T11:34:26","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T18:34:26","slug":"computer-that-could-outlive-the-universe-a-step-closer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/computer-that-could-outlive-the-universe-a-step-closer","title":{"rendered":"Computer that could outlive the universe a step closer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/computer-that-could-outlive-the-universe-a-step-closer.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The heat-death of the universe need not bring an end to the computing age. A strange device known as a time crystal can theoretically continue to work as a computer even after the universe cools. A new blueprint for such a time crystal brings its construction a step closer.<\/p>\n<p>Ordinary crystals are three-dimensional objects whose atoms are arranged in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/e-notes\/Cryst\/Cryst.htm\">regular, repeating patterns<\/a> \u2013 just like table salt. They adopt this structure because it uses the lowest amount of energy possible to maintain.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, Frank Wilczek, a theoretical physicist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, speculated that a similar structure might <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg21328484-000-death-defying-time-crystal-could-outlast-the-universe\">repeat regularly in the fourth dimension \u2013 time<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/dn22028-computer-that-could-outlive-the-universe-a-step-closer\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The heat-death of the universe need not bring an end to the computing age. A strange device known as a time crystal can theoretically continue to work as a computer even after the universe cools. A new blueprint for such a time crystal brings its construction a step closer. Ordinary crystals are three-dimensional objects whose [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":387,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,219,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-physics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18112","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\/387"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18112"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64014,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18112\/revisions\/64014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}