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Physicists create a new kind of time crystal that humans can actually see

Physicists create a new kind of time crystal that humans can actually see

EurekAlert!—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—or, at least, as close as humans can get to that idea. The researchers aren’t the first to make a time crystal, but their creation is the first that humans can actually see, which could open a host of technological applications.

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