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Frank Wilczek on the Future of Science (Part 1)

Closer To Truth

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The Future of Time Crystals

I think accuracy now is like one second for the entire history of the universe, 13-14. That sounds pretty accurate, and you might ask, why do you want to get more accurate than that? But the point is that in many applications of clocks, including GPS for instance, you want to use timing to measure spatial distances very accurately. What surprised me about time crystals is the possibility that you talked about molecular motors that could be found in living systems that might have some characteristics of time crystals.

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