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Imagine a clock that will keep perfect time forever, even after the heat-death of the universe. This is the wow factor behind a device known as a space-time crystal, a four-dimensional crystal that has periodic structure in time as well as space. However, there are also practical and important scientific reasons for constructing a space-time crystal. With such a 4D crystal, scientists would have a new and more effective means by which to study how complex physical properties and behaviors emerge from the collective interactions of large numbers of individual particles, the so-called many-body problem of physics.
Space-Time Crystal Would Answer Mysteries of Physics | News | Laboratory Equipment