2017 Time crystal

Time crystal

• Crystals repeat a pattern in space
• but most do not change over time.
• Time crystals repeat patterns
• in both space and time.
• For a while, scientists thought
• time crystals couldn’t exist.
• But now we know
• they can break time-translation symmetry
• by having a repeated motion
• without providing kinetic energy.

Inherent motion

• Electrons and photons have inherent motion.
• Stop a photon and it ceases to exist, but transfers its energy
• to something else, another particle, another form of energy.
• Inside a proton, under immense pressure,
• quarks and gluons achieve an equilibrium.
• On the quantum scale, laws of thermodynamics are questionable.

A word about rhyming

• In my mind I find
• a rime is not a rhyme—
• it’s a homonym—
• but a sneeze is a freeze
• and a half-integer spin
• is thicker than skin,
• limited by what I admit.