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It seems remarkable that time crystals were theorized in 2012 and confirmed in 2017. It took several decades for experimental methods to catch up to the Higgs B
by jdoliner 10y ago
It seems remarkable that time crystals were theorized in 2012 and confirmed in 2017. It took several decades for experimental methods to catch up to the Higgs Boson for example.
- ajkjk 10y agoWell, the Higgs has strict technical requirements -- a collider capable of getting comfortably over the energies needed to create the thing without it fading into background noise. That took a lot of engineering progress, software, money, and political will to get to. Whereas this is a much less.. involved creation. The experimental requirements aren't nearly as vast. (I found some details on the requirements here: https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/246841/why-did-it-take-so-long-to-find-the-higgs https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/246841/why-did-i... )