Photo illustration: Google Gemini
Imagine pulling out a 1000 Rupee bill and watching its security stripe pulse like a heartbeat, shifting, shimmering, and repeating in patterns no counterfeiter could fake. That’s the strange promise of , a form of matter physicists once thought impossible.
At the , researchers have just made the first visible time crystals. Born from twisted liquid crystals and light, they ripple with psychedelic tiger-stripe patterns that are robust, stable, repeating, and visible sometimes even to the naked eye.
This isn’t sci-fi fuel for a , but it might rewrite how we protect currency, store data or create futuristic displays. Imagine displays that self-animate, shifting colors or patterns in rhythmic cycles, all powered by the physics of time symmetry breaking.
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