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

[@waltersigona5642]

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

[@ryandavis4448]

This man has an unhealthy obsession with pens, for sure!

[@joshuaamitai]

he has many color pens to make it all more understandable when explaining on a papersheet

[@greywisker3180]

I was going to make a comment about the number of pens in his pocket but thought I better check the comments first…… and here we are, shucks.

[@juanpablonorris9753]

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

[@mindripperful]

You SOB im in

[@bonknohorny1711]

They don’t sell these at costco sadly

[@BZ-db1ro]

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.

[@ST5S5]

This dude must write a lot

[@jibbajungs]

more pens = more cleverer

[@hellfrost333]

If I have a pocket full of multi colored pens, people might think I'm smart...I mean he probably knows more about this stuff than me, but I'm not overly impressed or jumping in line to join his class; it sounded more like he got the Spark Notes and was trying to remember his Flash Cards from the night before.

[@Geffo555]

@@jibbajungs I bought a 130 pens but my IQ is still in single figures. What am I doing wrong?

[@jibbajungs]

@@Geffo555 Not enough pockets ;)

[@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.

[@tylerd55555]

sparta?

[@sungleong]

eventually we need to admit our understanding of the universe is fundamentally wrong. Many "scientists" today don't have an open mind to accept new phenomenons, they just say " I don't understand" instead of creating outlandish theories to explain them. When facing outlandish theories, their answer is "no, that's not science!", they are prisoners of a preconceived notion, no one has the courage to say our modal of the universe could be totally wrong.

[@UFOUAPMagnet]

@@tylerd55555 LOL Yes, this Sparta

[@Iluvbabaganush123]

The laws of physics are a collection of fundamental truths that have been repeatedly observed by people replicating experiments. When something like this comes along that violates the laws of pysics that just means our current understanding has an opportunity to grow. These laws are not like human laws, they are simply an extrapolated statement from the observation of fundamental truths. A new observation can change that extrapolation. And time crystals are a new observation.

[@walperstyle]

I think we are on the cusp of creating another 'zero' moment in our understanding of how things work. Example; before we invented 'zero' math was extremely limited. So, we just need to have another 'zero' moment, that will throw everything under the bus that we've known for so long.

[@luisarreaza7543]

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

[@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

[@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.

[@danielle3182]

Thermo what?? Dynamics Dynamics kzbin.infoSrbFKFCgnig?feature=share Few!

[@peachmelba1000]

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

[@StanHowse]

What does bellicose mean?

[@peachmelba1000]

@@StanHowse Bellicose describes a person who is aggressive and shows a willingness to fight.

[@Dontbustthecrust]

He's what Larry David would've been if his father hugged him even once.

[@peachmelba1000]

@@Dontbustthecrust That's a decent joke.

[@Dontbustthecrust]

@@peachmelba1000 thanks. You can have it.

[@zach4505]

First interview I have seen of Frank. He does well at explaining high level physics and how a a law we create is only as strong as the environment we test it in. Gonna check out his book: Ten Keys to reality

[@chrisfuller1268]

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?

[@JW-be8wf]

Cesium clocks is not a repetitive pattern. Cesium atoms are interacting with EM radiation at ~9.19 GHz. Electron states in an atom are associated with different energy levels and they transitions between such states with a very specific frequency of electromagnetic radiation. Cesium atom near absolute zero can have spins of F= 3 (lowest state) or F=4, a higher state. At F=3 , when you put EM radiation of 9.19 GHz frequency on cesium, it absorbs the radiation and goes to F=4. After a small fraction of a second the atom will re-emit the radiation and return to its F = 3 ground state. The definition of the second is the EM radiation; " The duration of 9192631770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the caesium 133 atom." It is measuring the frequency of the EM radiation that allows for cesium atom to go up a level and therefore a second. This "hyperfine structure" is inherent to all elements. Rubidium's frequency is 6.8 GHz, hydrogen is 1.4 GHz. Cesium is used because the higher the frequency the more accurate the clock would be. Rubudium clocks are less expensive than Cesium but accurate enough for GPS/GNSS to work. Cesium clocks are stupidly expensive. These time crystals seem to do it without external energy. They change their spin as if they remembered where they were before. You can't extract energy from them and they don't seem to absorb energy when being observed. They just change their spins periodically once you set them up correctly.

[@FrankieRedding]

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

[@TheYodaman22]

what happens if you take away energy? Does it just become a normal crystal? Or because it's at the lowest energy state is it impossible to draw any energy?

[@zeb1820]

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

[@sungleong]

well, since space and time are essentially the same thing, they are interchangeable.

[@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-pe6sd]

Lex is so high. “Everything’s beautiful”

[@Mike-nf6nf]

Those Starbucks Tripleshot drinks will blast you into alertness.

[@shampooner]

Sometimes i can’t tell if it’s him or i...

[@dying_allthetime]

hes either high or hes been fasting too long.

[@jareddavis8062]

@@dying_allthetime has to be part of his fasting or he isn’t sleeping well. He looks completely zonked.

[@ConnoisseurOfExistence]

The whole universe is in perpetual motion...

[@gerrit8350]

Not really. Interesting, though. But I don’t think it’s perpetual motion, it’s not recycling its own energy. It’s just driven by one initial blast of energy and literally 0 resistance

[@ConnoisseurOfExistence]

@@gerrit8350 Not only recycling its own energy, but actually more and more new energy appears, as the empty space is expanding. Check out Casimir effect and dark energy.

[@billballinger5622]

@@gerrit8350 wheres the proof

[@hellfrost333]

@@billballinger5622 the proof is in Philosophy, which is far ahead of Science & Physics

[@billballinger5622]

@@hellfrost333 I dont think Philosophy covers the big bang

[@griftingnightmares]

Isn't music a form of finding structures in time?

[@asutoshghanto3419]

bro not just symmetry in time but also to transitions states without using energy.

[@analisamelojete1966]

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.

[@ScheffCity]

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

[@zoranivanic3543]

hehe

[@Gen7486]

“No Summer you can’t come, fuck off”

[@mindofmayhem.]

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

[@DSGxTennessee]

Pen game super strong. My dude fully prepared to draw a rainbow at any given moment. 😂

[@sixacsix]

How do you cool down time slowly....

[@FredoCorleone]

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

[@blondebeard155]

When light shines through a crystal it refracts into a rainbow here, let me draw it out for you with my neatly arranged light spectrum pens.

[@fritzamtsberg5310]

I am so jealous of Franks pen collection

[@Starkada]

The number of pens in that guy's pocket violate the laws of physics

[@BigWokstar]

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

[@hellfrost333]

Pretty sure that's what he'd like you too think.

[@sambhavchoudhary1196]

@@hellfrost333 he has a fucking nobel prize least he would be concerned about was having multiple PhDs

[@anapimentel3973]

I'm too busy with human beings but I'm glad this gentleman still look for the stuff Amazing always amen

[@crownlands7246]

Now I know where all my pens went

[@Cisco3Pancho]

When u have ten pens in ur pocket u know he don’t fuck around about his math

[@thomasfeiller2207]

after listening to a couple of videos on the subject it is clear that no one, at least on youtube, has any idea what time crystals are.

[@SuperToughnut]

Are these time crystals what we use in clocks? Like quartz?

[@asutoshghanto3419]

no man .these are discovered using quantum computers .

[@natelabiss]

Should be a good thing to mention, time crystals, are not physically crystals. Its a metaphor.

[@VinceVintage]

He’s not talking about crystal meth?

[@natelabiss]

@@VinceVintage that might be one way of understanding lol

[@artstrology]

In crystals we will find the intersection of the visible with the invisible. The structures will follow the patterns of time.

[@SomethingImpromptu]

This is an incoherent question. If something violated the laws of physics, it wouldn’t exist as a product of the physical world for us to observe it.

[@Nick_Tag]

Forming Time crystals spontaneously displace uniform / homogeneous structures of time, is a “warp drive” an example of that?

[@spearshaker7974]

Time has a Lorentz force or right hand rule?

[@cedric_ly]

There is a video called "巴夏：時間晶體 Bashar：Time crystal" on KZbin explaining time crystals in an interesting point of view.

[@soumyaripan5131]

Good to know that thermodynamics is not necessarily fundamental physics but depends more on given conditions.

[@Barichnel]

Read an article on this yesterday and it left me so confused that I clicked on a Quanta Magazine article again today, and now I am less confused.

[@zionion]

Haha ha

[@kushagr7132]

So, you are saying that, To gets something closer to time crystal we have to provide energy to it And it will be saved as repulsive potential energy

[@joannemarc9121]

I had some time traveling crystals once I was flying 👍

[@dannystephens9056]

Is time Perpetual motion?

[@compota334]

So, a pendulum in vacum is a time cristal

[@wolfgangiii4719]

Time crystals offer the ability for quantum machines to carry out their intended task in a harsher environment. It is a huge deal in quantum computing where current machines required extremely cold temperatures to operate.

[@tomasletal257]

Could it be classified as a perpetual motion machine of the third kind?

[@twelveightyone]

I just love the fact this guy has a pen for every occasion.

[@Je_ku]

Is consciousnesses a time crystal?

[@STONECOLDET944]

A lattice geometry that repeats according to a pattern In time Ergo Time crystal Direct proof of temporal entanglement and continuum memory

[@Anonymous-jd3zc]

what happens if you eat time crystals?

[@jimmysavile8391]

Your poo turns purple

[@cheapscifi]

Did Lex quote Heinlein?

[@DadSkool]

I dont know about time crystals but 100% ice crystals do affect time if injested

[@artgreg2296]

Plasma for energy and time crystal for quantum computing

[@genghisgalahad8465]

The Eye of Agamotto?

[@Quijoteb]

Time liquid… I come here to get info on time crystals and boom now I have to dig info on more stuff. This is incredible

[@solitary200]

Anything the audience can do to expedite the upgrade to 4K?

[@anatolesokol]

With that definition anything is a time-crystal. Like a clock on a wall - it arranges itself again and again in repeating pattern over time. What a mess. Any atom is time-crystal with this definition, anything that repeats... and we have a lot of stuff like this around us, may be this is the reason we have it around us, yet.

[@jmf5246]

Vacumn energy! Ha ha. I do recall getting through statistical thermodynamics and out prof was an old los alamos guy and one kid in the class asked him who u could explain biological organisms based on entropy just to watch the old guy flip out. It was a tough class and that was the highpoint.

[@abiuniverse]

What is the difference between a "time crystal" and an ordinary undamped oscillator? Both do the same thing.

[@nickwarren2768]

Lex, if you’re reading this - you’ve made a profound impact on my life ❤️

[@austenl43]

You guys keep using the word 'time' as if it were not intrinsically a part of space and it's kind of confusing. I feel like 'in sequence' or 'sequential order' is what was meant and would be better language to use as the way I see it time is but a measurement of changing space.

[@Gysa62]

what is time? for matter time isn't a form factor determinant, time on its own is a chronographic measurement sequential periods, the temperature may be a determinant factor however this self-shaping element hasn't been developed correctly it is still a theory, I don't think this represents any type of finding whatsoever, to me light could be a state of matter since it is present we can see it and even measure its intensity, I don't understand how come we have things such as the speed of light and we haven't considered light as a state of matter.

[@doggfantom1972]

The one dude has no pen but the science looking guy got like 50 in his shirt pocket 🤣🤣

[@Hampardo]

Isn't this just periodic motion coming from time-homogeneous equations?

[@gordonfrimann246]

Time-crystal gets more headlines

[@jackonno78]

the title of this video sounds like something that someone on acid would say

[@jd35711]

that’s not a coincidence

[@kevinlapsley8227]

I should also point out that Frank Wilczek is a "Stockholm" Professor and also a Pantheist which means he believes in a nature of divinity, where all quantum mechanics are designed by G-D to form predetermined anomalies and when anomalies like this time crystal form, they're a nature sign of divinity and therefore a quantum successful reality, which becomes a quantum memory and if you understand the physics of Metatron you can better compute that all of nature is divine... Which human nature nowadays is destroying nature which basically depletes the divinity of nature and submerges us further down an industrial and artificial "nature" or "governing force"

[@carlosfaria1823]

@ 2:10 he basically describes UFO activity

[@Adrian_Estando]

This rebel is living life on the edge! ... No pocket protector.

[@tisigrozen]

This guy reminded me of the "Have you ever had a dream" kid.

[@TheAngel0009]

You know I got a brilliant idea whoever discovered these time crystals should invent a machine and put the crystals into it design the buttons with numbers and make it to where you input a time date and year and boom you got a time machine

[@mickfromaustralia2680]

All those pens and no leaking??? I'm impressed.. Nerd level is Gangsta!!

[@Bellenchia]

Nice pens

[@havenbastion]

There are no cheat codes on the universe. Causality is infinite in all directions at all scales.

[@koloradokilla1]

Sheldon in 20 years

[@keenanweind1780]

The guy who played Sheldon was no spring chicken; you could say that this is him now... ☻

[@keenanweind1780]

I assumed you meant Lex, but after giving it some thought, I realize now that you might have meant the other guy (oops)... ☻

[@bobsauce9840]

They found a Chaos Emerald

[@ryandavis4448]

Let's talk about this guy's obsession with pens!? Holy God!!

[@かわいい89]

Build me out of light and beam me up

[@shaneburkhalter1621]

If time Crystal's could be harvested theoretically you could use them as a force shield for a space ship in order to travel light speed because the time crystals don't apply to normal physics and sense they should theoretically not break apart do to the constant changing at the quantum level.should be like a film🧐ah who am I kidding it would all shatter

[@FrontierSettler]

Thought this might have to do with Dr. Who.

[@cybervigilante]

Mediocre scientist: "Since it violates the laws of thermodynamics we have to find a way in which it doesn't." Brilliant scientist: "Since it violates the laws of thermodynamics, lets see if we're wrong about those laws and there's something entirely new to discover." There are no "laws" of physics, as if ordained by God. There are highly statistical observations backed by very good theories that work. But we could be totally wrong.

[@robinharvey1830]

My brain left upon hearing "time liquid"

[@plafar7887]

Time crystals are green. I met a guy who had one. His name was Stephen I think. Stephen Strange.

[@nobo6687]

How to use time crystal’s to produce energy but at the same time to cool down the surroundings. How to extract energy by cooling air down using time crystals . For this clue I will be use a quantum computer.

[@timbervanlom7793]

But what if time is not the lowest vibration/rotation/frequency? What if it's the highest? Unlimited amounts of extraction from time and space are happening every day. Every single bit of energy we see exuded IS the perpetual motion. Life itself, consciousness, light IS perpetual motion. ~high school dropout

[@sungleong]

if you look at the universe as a closed system, while you gain something here, somebody loses something there, they balance out. Essentially there is no free lunch, you just need to look at the bigger picture instead of pigeon hole in a small region of the universe.

[@lilbar3362]

To give is to receive

[@SomeoneElsesStory]

Time is cubic. The time cube is the basis of our reality.

[@SickSoundingStuff]

What the hell is a time crystal? Something from Final Fantasy?

[@alijens]

Wild idea! Time crystals and Dark Energy is the same thing. Gravity is anti-time crystals! ....

[@richardkelly7572]

Dude needs a pocket protector.

[@raultejedor]

I feel like borrowing a pen.

[@kevinlapsley8227]

I mean, the time crystal is obviously producing important information even if it is considered "free lunch" dingdongs who aren't aware of the time crystal's importance quite yet.

[@spearshaker7974]

I seen a photo of a metal bar or something that had some weird tiger striping under special sensors it was amazing. Anton hello wonderful person I think it is

[@Lmlmlm999]

they had this on ancient aliens. crystal skulls.

[@henryjfischer]

Wilczek could have explained this in a better way. He's obviously spent too much time speaking with his colleagues.

[@tryitout-701]

ok, so this guy is rick and he is going to make inter dimensional travel possible.

[@darylhiggs9100]

Me, stoned, what the fuck is a time crystal??

[@graestarr]

hillfiger with the 6 pens

[@iv7796]

the best scientists always have crazy hair

[@iv7796]

@@MrKirby69 no he has patches and they go all kinds of crazy directions, thats pretty crazy in my book

[@ishikawa1338]

Crystals have no rate of decay they r frozen in time the moment they form

[@Eremon1]

Time crystals are much less tart than Tang crystals are. Fact.

[@Eremon1]

@Baby Dragon I was stuck in line renewing my license to pun. Sorry about that.

[@marccas10]

Jesus Christ. I got some crazy Dejavu when I read that comment? Has Lex talked about this before and did you make a similar comment?

[@Eremon1]

@@marccas10 Not that I recall. It's probably just the time crystals.