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I am ballerinas (ktfr 33)

a cabriole over the lattice structure,

no rest, à la seconde—we turn and pirouette

I am ballerinas,

we move without metronome

trapped inside a crystal of time

 

infinite choreography

one left, the other right

a dark sequential arabesque, adagio—

allongé, arrière, we tap our heels

 

optical motion without energy

to shatter such time symmetry,

I choreograph non equillibrium—

so chassé, you then me—pulse and flip,

to the thud of our own drum

 

I am dancers shoved

into the spotlight of a sequential stage,

infinite repeated motion

we twirl along a chain of ytterbium

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Written by
acacia
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Published
Apr 17
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Notes

this was in the drafts for a loooooooooong time

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_crystal

 

"A one-dimensional chain of ytterbium ions was turned into a time crystal by physicists at the University of Maryland, based on a blueprint provided by UC Berkeley’s Norman Yao. Each ion behaves like an electron spin and exhibits long-range interactions indicated as arrows. "

https://news.berkeley.edu/2017/01/26/scientists-unveil-new-form-of-matter-time-crystals/

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