Can anybody explain a time crystal to us grade 6r’s?
It’s used for time travel.
If I could do that I wouldn’t be here.................
From the Bard AI:
Normal crystals: Think of a ball bouncing in place. It goes up and down, up and down, in the same way over and over again. That’s like a normal crystal, with atoms repeating their positions in space over and over.
Time crystals: Now, imagine the ball bouncing, but each time it goes up, it starts slightly higher. So, the pattern repeats, but it also changes slightly with each cycle. That’s the basic idea of a time crystal, where the pattern of atoms repeats in time, but with a twist.
But here’s the tricky part: According to the laws of physics, things tend to lose energy and eventually settle into a constant state. So, how can something keep changing in a repeating pattern forever without using up energy?