DARPA Is Funding Research Into Time Crystals, And No One Knows Why
By Josh Davis
16 Mar 2018, 18:31
One of the weirdest bits of science to have come out recently – time crystals – are apparently forming the center of a new program at DARPA, the US military’s research institute. What interest the army has in this odd state of matter is, naturally, classified.
Time crystals are not easy to get one's head around. In effect, in the same way that atoms are arranged periodically in space to form a crystal, they can also be arranged periodically in time to form a time crystal. These oscillate in a stable repetitive pattern, meaning that they could be used as an incredibly precise clock, or may find use in the ever-elusive quantum computer.
http://www.iflscience.com/physics/darpa-is-funding-research-into-time-crystals-and-no-one-knows-why/
