In a groundbreaking scientific achievement, researchers have successfully created a new phase of matter known as time crystals, which fascinatingly exhibit behaviors akin to perpetual motion. We will ...

A radical theory predicting the existence of “time crystals” — perpetual motion objects that break the symmetry of time — is being put to the test. In February 2012, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. From diamonds to snowflakes to salt, crystals are common in nature. The arrangement of their ...

If we want to see quantum weirdness with our eyes, we’ll need Bose-Einstein Condensates. The weird rules of quantum mechanics lead to all sorts of bizarre phenomena on tiny scales— particles ...

Perhaps the most persistent nonsense in physics: the perpetual motion machine. Bad ideas come and go in physics. But there’s one bit of nonsense that is perhaps more persistent than all others: the ...

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