Physicists Create World’s First Time Crystal

Re:Physicists Create World’s First Time Crystal by lisper on Friday October 07, 2016 @12:24AM (#12658167)

> is that mostly correct?

Mostly.

> also, how popular is this theory in the physics community?

Not very. The fashionable way to think about this stuff is something called "decoherence" which really amounts to the same thing but phrased in different terms.

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Re:Physicists Create World’s First Time Crystal by questionr on Friday October 07, 2016 @12:35AM (#12658200)

Thanks!

so if i were to do further research into this, I would use the keyword "decoherence"?

also not being a physicist, could I naively think this would be a good candidate for the "theory of everything"?

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Re:Physicists Create World’s First Time Crystal by lisper on Friday October 07, 2016 @01:58AM (#12658507)

> so if i were to do further research into this, I would use the keyword "decoherence"?

Decoherence, relational quantum mechanics, quantum information theory, the Von Neuman measurement model -- all of these turn out to be the same thing.

> also not being a physicist, could I naively think this would be a good candidate for the "theory of everything"?

No, the "theory of everything" refers to the unification of quantum mechanics and relativity. Completely different topic.

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Re:Physicists Create World’s First Time Crystal by questionr on Friday October 07, 2016 @04:17PM (#12663619)

Thanks for clarifying my misconception

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Re:Physicists Create World’s First Time Crystal by lisper on Friday October 07, 2016 @04:21PM (#12663646)

You bet.

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