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Scientists Built a Time Crystal That Lasted for 40 Minutes. That's Astonishing.

This state of matter laughs in the face of decay.

Although this fascinating new phase of matter could have game-changing applications in the world of quantum computing, they don’t tend to survive very long. And amazingly, this repeating oscillation lasted a whole 40 minutes—an order of magnitude far greater than any continuous time crystal that’s come before. But as with many amazing breakthroughs and discoveries, scientists don’t really know what uses could be dreamed up in the future—just as the inventors of the transistor in the late 1940s couldn't foresee the iPhone.

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