This Clock Will Tick Forever - Even After The End Of Universe

Scientists have proposed to build a perfect space-time crystal that will not only keep accurate time, but also last forever. For the first time in the history of humans, scientists feel that they can build a four dimensional (4D) time-space crystal. Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)'s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have proposed to design such 4D crystal comprising of trapped ions. The ions will be held in their position via a ring potential and static magnetic field.

[caption id="attachment_42671" align="aligncenter" width="490"] Image Credit: Xiang Zhang group, Berkeley Lab-UC Berkeley[/caption]

Via application of weak magnetic fields, the ring shaped ion crystals begin rotation that will never stop. Since the space-time crystal will always be in the lowest quantum energy state, it will continue to keep time forever - even when the Universe attains the entropy, thermodynamic equilibrium. We wish the researchers develop it before December 2012; for obvious reasons.

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