# Physicists created a tiny universe and watched time emerge without a clock

- Source: Latest Science News -- ScienceDaily
- Published: 2026-10-30T11:42:36+00:00
- Category: Science
- Original: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/10/261028234703.htm
- Canonical: https://groundlevelnews.com/story/physicists-created-a-tiny-universe-and-watched-time-emerge-without-a-c-99c61f/

Scientists have created a miniature universe in the laboratory that could help answer one of the biggest mysteries in physics: What is time, and where does it come from? Using 24,000 ultracold atoms, a University of Birmingham researcher built an isolated quantum system that repeatedly expands and contracts, mimicking the Big Bang and a possible Big Crunch. Remarkably, the experiment showed that t

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