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From The Principal’s Desk
Science Feature:
Time Crystals
You Can See
By now, everyone knows I’m interested in them useful for reliable data storage
science. I was reading about Time Crystals or even anti-counterfeit features in
this week, which were in the news, and banknotes.
decided to write a little bit about them to Even more exciting is their potential for
see if you find them as interesting as I do. quantum computing. Quantum systems
Imagine a clock that never needs batteries, are extremely fragile, but a time crystal’s
yet its hands keep moving forever. That’s stable, repeating rhythm might serve as
the idea behind a time crystal—a strange a steady “heartbeat” to help quantum
new form of matter that doesn’t sit still computers store and protect information
but instead moves in a repeating, endless more effectively.
cycle.
Link if you want to read more. I have
Recently, scientists at the University of included a link here:
Colorado Boulder created the first visible
time crystal using liquid crystals (the Scientists just made the first time crystal
same materials found in phone screens). you can see | ScienceDaily
When illuminated by light, these crystals
form colorful, striped patterns that swirl We’ve started the first term strongly,
endlessly, almost like a never-ending and I applaud the Regent Community’s
animated GIF. commitment to Excellence..
Time crystals matter because they don’t
“use up” energy in the normal way. Their
endlessly repeating patterns could make
Philip Reynolds
Principal
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