Otherworldly 'time crystal' made inside Google quantum computer could change physics forever

[Judi Lynn]

By Ben Turner about 5 hours ago

The crystal is able to forever cycle between states without losing energy.



The time crystal was created inside Google's Sycamore chip, which is kept cool inside their quantum cryostat.
(Image credit: Eric Lucero/Google, Inc.)

Researchers working in partnership with Google may have just used the tech giant's quantum computer to create a completely new phase of matter — a time crystal.

With the ability to forever cycle between two states without ever losing energy, time crystals dodge one of the most important laws of physics — the second law of thermodynamics, which states that the disorder, or entropy, of an isolated system must always increase. These bizarre time crystals remain stable, resisting any dissolution into randomness, despite existing in a constant state of flux.

According to a research article posted July 28 to the preprint database arXiv, scientists were able to create the time crystal for roughly 100 seconds using qubits (quantum computing's version of the traditional computer bit) inside the core of Google's Sycamore quantum processor.

The existence of this weird new matter phase, and the entirely new realm of physical behaviors it reveals, is incredibly exciting to physicists, especially as time crystals were only first predicted to exist just nine years ago.

More:
https://www.livescience.com/google-invents-time-crystal?utm_source=notification

[Backseat Driver]

1. Mind-blowing!

Does it have/have not mass at the same time? Does it exist and not exist in dimension(s) at the same time? Can we save Earth mass overcome by bits and bytes by storing those bits/bytes of info in a "time crystal" and ever locate that info again? I'm not a physics scientist and don't think I've even stayed in a Holiday Express.

[Binkie The Clown]

2. "The Endochronic Properties of Resublimated Thiotimoline"

Remember that? If so, you're as old as me, which is to say, as old as dirt.

[ChazInAz]

4. Snortle!

I fondly remember The Good Doctor's on-going gag!
Not only am I older than dirt, I believe I'm partially fossilized.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

3. If it cycles forever, why only last 100 seconds?

Not perfectly formed, or is the anti-Second Law theory flawed in the "forever" department?

[CloudWatcher]

9. Forever ... or 100 seconds, whichever is less :)

Google wasn't the first to create one of these. First predicted 2012 Scientific American, likely observed since 2016 ... Time crystal experiments

[sanatanadharma]

5. Science talk to say what is said in the ancient Vedas

The essence of the Vedic revelation, the last chapters- so to speak, explain the Vedic unified-field-theory.
Sat-Chit-Ananta* means the 'existent-conscious-unending'.

The article speaks of a 'timeless existent' that is neither inside nor outside of an entropic isolated system.
This is known by conscious-existent-observers, who also observe their incredible excitment.

* For those in the know who prefer Ananda, no problem. Ananda means endless; ananda that ends is not Ananda

[LuvLoogie]

6. Perhaps the state is merely an illusion.

Similar to weightlessness on an aircraft mirroring free fall for a few moments.

The energy and physics of the computer creates this suspended animation for a short time where the crystal seems in constant change without energy loss. Yet the energy required to create this state is not outside the laws of entropy. Energy is required to create this environment seemingly out of the known parameters.

And it could be that the current tolerances of our measuring equipment aren't small enough.

[Duppers]

7. Too ignorant to even comment here

And my resources, 2 theoretical physicists, are currently too busy to get back with me.

[Javaman]

8. would this then be considered an observable 4th dimensional thing? nt

[Uncle Joe]

10. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread Judi Lynn.