{"id":3921752,"date":"2025-09-05T13:04:38","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T18:04:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/physicists-create-a-new-kind-of-time-crystal-that-humans-can-actually-see\/"},"modified":"2025-09-05T13:04:38","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T18:04:38","slug":"physicists-create-a-new-kind-of-time-crystal-that-humans-can-actually-see","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/physicists-create-a-new-kind-of-time-crystal-that-humans-can-actually-see\/","title":{"rendered":"Physicists create a new kind of time crystal that humans can actually see"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Imagine a clock that doesn&#8217;t have electricity, but its hands and gears spin on their own for all eternity. In a new study, physicists at the University of Colorado Boulder have used liquid crystals, the same materials that are in your phone display, to create such a clock\u2014or, at least, as close as humans can get to that idea. The team&#8217;s advancement is a new example of a &#8220;time crystal.&#8221; That&#8217;s the name for a curious phase of matter in which the pieces, such as atoms or other particles, exist in constant motion.<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2025-09-physicists-kind-crystal-humans.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine a clock that doesn&#8217;t have electricity, but its hands and gears spin on their own for all eternity. In a new study, physicists at the University of Colorado Boulder have used liquid crystals, the same materials that are in your phone display, to create such a clock\u2014or, at least, as close as humans can [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3921752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-in-physics","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3921752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3921752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3921752\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3921752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3921752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3921752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}