![](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20121007035437im_/http://www.nsf.gov/images/x.gif) News From the Field A Clock That Will Last Forever
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September 24, 2012
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Imagine a clock that will keep perfect time forever or a device that opens new dimensions into the study of quantum phenomena such as emergence and entanglement. Berkeley Lab researchers have proposed a space-time crystal based on an electric-field ion trap and the Coulomb repulsion of particles that carry the same electrical charge.
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