What the heck is a time crystal?

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It sounds like something from MCU but I literally have no idea what a time crystal is. I thought it was something theoretical or abstract but apparently that’s not the case it seems.

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A crystal is just something that has a repeating structure. Normally we mean this in the spatial sense. These crystals repeat some pattern in space but are unchanged through time. This applies to all the regular crystals you would be familiar with. A time crystal is something with a temporally repeating structure. So a time crystal has some physical structure that changes over time but in a repeating way.

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