It appears Zeeya Merali over at Scientific American was being hyperbolic, or didn’t understand the science behind time crystals. Those curious, real-world analogues to thiotimoline raising such a buzz for more than a decade aren’t opening portals to new dimensions, but time crystals have the potential to be a real game-changer in science and everyday life. Come for the debunking, but learn a little bit about time crystals while you’re here. Just clean up after your mind is blown. By the way if you’re brave enough to want to read Dynamical Topological Phase Realized In A Trapped-Ion Quantum Simulator just email Philipp T. Dumitrescu. Nature was kind enough to provide a link to his email. At the other end of the spectrum is Max Laughlin, up-and-coming theoretical physicist, who Explains Why He Thinks We Are Living In A Parallel Universe at the tender age of 13! Your grain of salt? Courtesy of Jennifer Sandlin with her succinct coda to the phenomenon of provocative woo-woo. (CS)
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