{"id":78200,"date":"2018-05-02T10:42:55","date_gmt":"2018-05-02T17:42:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/physicists-find-signs-of-a-time-crystal"},"modified":"2018-05-04T11:06:27","modified_gmt":"2018-05-04T18:06:27","slug":"physicists-find-signs-of-a-time-crystal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/physicists-find-signs-of-a-time-crystal","title":{"rendered":"Physicists find signs of a time crystal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/physicists-find-signs-of-a-time-crystal.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yale physicists have uncovered hints of a time crystal\u2014a form of matter that \u201cticks\u201d when exposed to an electromagnetic pulse\u2014in the last place they expected: a crystal you might find in a child\u2019s toy.<\/p>\n<p>The discovery means there are now new puzzles to solve, in terms of how <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/time+crystals\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">time crystals<\/a> form in the first place.<\/p>\n<p>Ordinary crystals such as salt or quartz are examples of three-dimensional, ordered spatial crystals. Their atoms are arranged in a repeating system, something scientists have known for a century.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2018-05-physicists-crystal.html\">https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2018&#45;05-physicists-crystal.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yale physicists have uncovered hints of a time crystal\u2014a form of matter that \u201cticks\u201d when exposed to an electromagnetic pulse\u2014in the last place they expected: a crystal you might find in a child\u2019s toy. The discovery means there are now new puzzles to solve, in terms of how time crystals form in the first place. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78200","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78200"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78286,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78200\/revisions\/78286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}