Time crystals sound like majestic objects from science fiction movies that unlock passageways to alternate universes. In the Marvel universe, the “time stone” gives wielders control over the past, present, and future.
While that remains a fantasy, scientists have successfully created micro-scale time crystals for years — not for powering intergalactic spaceships, but for energizing ultrapowerful computers.
“Time crystals are like a rest stop on the road to building a quantum computer,” said Norman Yao, a molecular physicist at the University of California, Berkeley.
Time crystals sound like majestic objects from science fiction movies that unlock passageways to alternate universes. In the Marvel universe, the “time stone” gives wielders control over the past, present, and future.
While that remains a fantasy, scientists have successfully created micro-scale time crystals for years — not for powering intergalactic spaceships, but for energizing ultrapowerful computers.
“Time crystals are like a rest stop on the road to building a quantum computer,” said Norman Yao, a molecular physicist at the University of California, Berkeley.