Time Crystals are not Interesting - Ask a Spaceman!

What’s the deal with time crystals? Do they break physics as we know it? Or are they merely…neat? What do symmetries and the conservation of energy have to do with it? I discuss these questions and more in today’s Ask a Spaceman!

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Music by Jason Grady and Nick Bain. Thanks to WCBE Radio for hosting the recording session, Greg Mobius for producing, and Cathy Rinella for editing.

[Datokah]

The name is pretty bad, though. They sound like the sort of thing you expect Dr Who to be waving around.

Great videos, btw. Informative and thought-provoking.

[SixTough]

Hey Paul I wonder if you could make a video on magnetosphere of a planet with liquid water or ammonia or whatever? Do moving charges like ions in a liquid create a magnetic field?

[lastsilhouette]

Are there any engineering applications for time crystals?

[FinleyESB]

I've always got time for space shit. You have some interesting content I've just added you to my subs alongside Frazer Cain and Isaac Arthur

[grxryder]

Time crystals are not interesting, underneath this video, Time Crystals Are Very Interesting! Lol I guess this is either a correction or a clarification.

[II-hjhz]

It's zero point energy(one form of) in its infancy