Hameroff’s work is a precious contribution to expanding the scientific imagination, and I even include this latest twist of time crystals. (Ryan Kidd has studied Floquet dynamics, which underpins the discrete time crystals he’s talking about.) There are Ising-type models of microtubule dynamics and you can get time crystals in Ising systems… However, I am extremely skeptical of the Bandyopadhyay group’s interpretations of its data.
A potential answer to something special that carbon can do: time crystals.
Hameroff’s work is a precious contribution to expanding the scientific imagination, and I even include this latest twist of time crystals. (Ryan Kidd has studied Floquet dynamics, which underpins the discrete time crystals he’s talking about.) There are Ising-type models of microtubule dynamics and you can get time crystals in Ising systems… However, I am extremely skeptical of the Bandyopadhyay group’s interpretations of its data.