It has been reported that researchers of the US Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory are busy in designing a “space-time crystal”. It has been informed that the space-time crystal will inform the researchers about periodic structures and ultracold ions rotaion.

The researchers are of the view that the space-time crystal or clock will allow the researchers to understand the complexity of the physical bodies. Besides, the clock will also help researchers in studying the phenomena in the quantum world.

Till now, the concept of space-time crystal has remained a dream. But, now the researchers are trying to gauge the ways by which the clock could be maintained so that their future goals of space science could be achieved.

Xiang Zhang from Berkeley Lab's Materials Sciences Division while explain the space-time crystal said,”… a spatial ring of trapped ions in persistent rotation will periodically reproduce itself in time, forming a temporal analog of an ordinary spatial crystal. With a periodic structure in both space and time, the result is a space-time crystal”. It is hoped that the space-time crystal will help researchers in solving the mysteries of the space.