{"id":30849,"date":"2016-10-07T13:47:59","date_gmt":"2016-10-07T20:47:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/physicists-just-created-the-worlds-first-time-crystal"},"modified":"2017-06-04T14:10:49","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T21:10:49","slug":"physicists-just-created-the-worlds-first-time-crystal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/physicists-just-created-the-worlds-first-time-crystal","title":{"rendered":"Physicists just created the world\u2019s first time crystal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/physicists-just-created-the-worlds-first-time-crystal.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/time-crystals-might-exist-after-all-and-they-could-break-the-symmetry-of-space-and-time\">Just last month<\/a>, physicists made the best case yet for why time crystals \u2014 hypothetical structures that have movement without energy \u2014 could technically exist as physical objects.<\/p>\n<p>And now, four years after they were first proposed, scientists have managed to add a fourth dimension \u2014 the movement of time \u2014 to a crystal for the first time, giving it the ability to act as a kind of perpetual \u2018time-keeper\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>First proposed by Nobel-Prize winning theoretical physicist Frank Wilczek <a href=\"http:\/\/journals.aps.org\/prl\/abstract\/10.1103\/PhysRevLett.109.160401\">back in 2012<\/a>, time crystals are hypothetical structures that appear to have movement even at their lowest energy state, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ground_state\">known as a ground state.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/physicists-just-created-the-world-s-first-time-crystal\">http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/physicists-just-created-the-worl...me-crystal<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just last month, physicists made the best case yet for why time crystals \u2014 hypothetical structures that have movement without energy \u2014 could technically exist as physical objects. And now, four years after they were first proposed, scientists have managed to add a fourth dimension \u2014 the movement of time \u2014 to a crystal for [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30849","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\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30849"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66058,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30849\/revisions\/66058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}