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The Floating Crystal That Defies The Laws Of Physics

Most people learned Newton’s Third Law of Motion in school: for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction, which is why rockets can launch, baseballs can bounce, and the simple act of walking is possible at all. But physicists at New York University have now created something that quietly defies that foundational rule, a brand new kind of structure called a time crystal that levitates in mid-air on nothing but sound. Unlike regular crystals, such as diamonds or table salt, whose atoms form ordered patterns through space, time crystals are organized in repeating patterns through time itself, cycling back and forth in an endless rhythmic motion. The researchers built theirs from tiny styrofoam beads suspended between two sets of speakers about six inches apart, kept floating by the invisible push of sound waves, in a setup the scientists describe as surprisingly simple for something so scientifically extraordinary.

What makes these time crystals so remarkable is the way the floating beads interact with each other once airborne. Larger beads scatter more sound than smaller ones, meaning the forces between them are unequal and unbalanced, breaking Newton’s rule that forces must always work equally in both directions. Think of two boats of very different sizes creating waves, with the bigger boat always having the far stronger push on the smaller one. The concept of time crystals was first theorized in 2012 by a Nobel Prize-winning physicist and was long considered extraordinarily exotic and difficult to achieve, which is part of what makes the NYU team’s simple and elegant approach so exciting to the scientific world. Beyond the wonder of the discovery, researchers say these floating sound-powered crystals could one day lead to advances in quantum computing, data storage, and may even help explain how the body’s internal biological clock keeps its steady rhythm throughout our entire lives.

Source: https://www.newsweek.com/physics-time-crystals-sound-defy-newton-third-law-motion-11530454

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