Maybe explain like I’m 1 years old… Just read an article on a team of researchers who recently created a video of a Space-Time crystal. Pls can someone explain in the most basic way possible what a time crystal is? I’ve read previous posts on this and I still don’t understand :(

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Link to article is [here](https://scitechdaily.com/see-worlds-first-video-of-a-space-time-crystal/).

In: Physics

Answer 1

A crystal is a material whose internal structure is a highly ordered geometric pattern. So, like a regular crystal’s atomic structure repeats in space, a “time crystal” is an atomic structure that repeats in *time*. It’s a set of atoms that seem to go change between several different configurations and do so in a loop that repeats forever.

I really don’t know how that works, at all