Accidental Artists

Reading Chapter 13 of Launching the Imagination about time design caused my mind to desire exploring this concept.  Part of my exploration led me to experiments conducted at Lawrence Berkeley National laboratory.  Time, it seems, provides an endless source of curiosity to scientists.  In the process these same scientists become accidental artists.  As it happens, the lab’s researchers have proposed an experimental design of a space-time crystal able to “keep perfect time forever, even after the heat-death of the universe.”  So what’s the utility of that, you might say?  Who cares what time it is if there’s nothing or no one to read it?  Well, of course these guys also see all sorts of other quantum physics applications but here at the Gunionator blog we’re interested in the art so have a look at the accidental Berkeley Lab artist’s rendition of the perfect clock!