00:00Hold up. Scientists just built a miniature universe in a lab, and here is the craziest part.
00:04Time inside this mini-world doesn't care about clocks. It ticks by its own rules.
00:09This isn't a sci-fi movie scene, it's percent real.
00:12A brilliant team of physicists at the University of Birmingham, led by Professor Giovanni Barontini,
00:16managed to trap this tiny patch of space-time inside a secure chamber.
00:19So how did they pull this off?
00:20They took exactly 24,000 rubidium atoms and chilled them down to absolute zero, colder than the deepest parts of
00:25space.
00:26This forced the atoms to merge into one giant super particle.
00:29Inside this bubble, time isn't a set thing. It's born from the chaos of the atoms.
00:32When the atoms shake faster, time literally fast forwards.
00:35But when the atoms freeze and stop moving, time inside that universe completely stops.
00:38Mind blown yet? This micro-universe keeps looping through its own mini-big bangs and collapses,
00:43mimicking how our actual cosmos started.
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