Do time crystals violate the laws of physics? | Frank Wilczek and Lex Fridman

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Frank Wilczek is a Nobel Prize winning physicist at MIT.

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[waltersigona]

I'm sitting here with one pen in my shirt pocket, and thinking I need to step up my pen game.

[juanpablonorris]

-Reads "time crystals".
Brain: Is this some Rick and Morty thing?

[BZ-dbro]

The first 3 seconds of me seeing this guy, I went straight to the comments to see who else is talking about his massive pen count.

[luisarreaza]

Wardrobe lady: how many pens do you want in your shirt pocket?
Frank: yes

[UFOUAPMagnet]

Does anyone ever think that when we constantly keep finding things that "violate the laws of physics" which is impossible, by the way, it is simply exposing the flaws in our understanding? We keep trying to make things fit in the box, instead of making the box to better fit. It looks like madness to me.

[peachmelba]

I like this milder, less bellicose version of Larry David.

[FrankieRedding]

So what were saying here is, if I dab DMT via a quartz banger, I can time travel?

[Biosynchro]

This video reminds me of the big difference between a science cheerleader and an actual scientist.

Cheerleaders simply chant "laws of thermodynamics" while actual scientists remind us that actually it's not as simple as that.

[ScheffCity]

"You stole time crystals from testicle monsters??"
Summer Smith

[ConnoisseurOfExistence]

The whole universe is in perpetual motion...

[analisamelojete]

Physics laws are like countries regular laws. They can only be applied in their respective fields. So, Time Crystal do not break the laws of thermodynamics, simple these laws cannot be applied there.

Beautiful physics.

[BigWokstar]

The pens in his pocket are for each PhD he has 😂

[FredoCorleone]

Two things are important here:
- Time crystals;
- Pens.

[mindofmayhem.]

If it works it breaks the 2nd law of thermodynamics. You'd have to throw entropy out the window.

[zeb]

This is really really interesting! I didn't think anyone else would be thinking about such things as time liquids etc.

[Ripthatshitsfr]

Time crystal, government admits ufos, I definitely think the Mandela effect has me in a different universe than the one I was in during the 90’s

[shkodnick]

Man that's such an elegant way of thinking about perpetual motion — ability to extract energy from a recurring physical event happening at an energy state above the lowest state energy state

[hudsoncraftworks]

In any of the three physical dimensions we are familiar with, if there was a sufficiently large crystalline object that you couldn't see the far end of it, would you make the assumption that it was infinite (perpetual) in that dimension? Or would it be more likely that you say, wow, that is a very big finite object?

If it's being explained that a time crystal is an object that shows a repeating structure in the time dimension as well as the three physical dimensions, then why wouldn't it stand to reason that the object probably has a finite structure in time as well? Acknowledging a finite size would eliminate the idea of perpetual motion. It would mean that as we progress through time, we would eventually reach the end of the object and its motion relative to time would cease. I'll be interested to hear if we observe this with any of the known time crystals currently under observation.

What seems like the next-level idea to me is to determine a way to encode data into the time component of the crystal, just like it can be done with physical crystals here and now.

[MrS-pesd]

Lex is so high. “Everything’s beautiful”

[chrisfuller]

How is a 'time crystal' different from the repeating patterns of the combinations of protons and electrons? For example, we use time repeating patterns of cesium atoms in atomic clocks. We also use the infinite motion of charge over time which creates permanent magnets. How is a time crystal different from these known, permanent time-symmetric phenomena?