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The 10 Most Significant Scientific Breakthroughs of 2017

  • Writer: Frank Wilczek
    Frank Wilczek
  • Dec 31, 2017
  • 1 min read

Time Crystals

For the first time ever, researchers created time crystals - a previously hypothetical crystal that can potentially stay in perpetual motion without energy, thanks to a fracture in time's symmetry. Imagined in 2002 by the Nobel laureate Frank Wilczek, these structures were deemed "impossible" by most physicists.

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