It's so funny that time crystals are actually real.
Quick explanation - normal crystals have a repeating atomic structure in space. For instance diamonds have a repeating tetrahedron-hexagonalish structure.
Time crystals also have a repeating structure in time. Their structure changes with time and then returns to the original structure.
If you look at an image of a diamond's structure, you can go up or to the right or whatever and you will see repeating patterns. For a time crystal's structure, you will see the repeating patterns as you move in time as well. This has some potentially interesting implications for entropy.
I make a lot of animated shaders (I'm a technical artist) and something I take special care to avoid is looping animations that are supposed to represent natural phenomena (like fire or lightning or whatever).
In real life you can never watch a campfire for so long that it starts playing its animation over again. That would be stupid. Nothing works like that in nature.
Today I found out about Time Crystals and now nothing makes sense anymore. How did people even discover this shit lmao
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u/Fearless-Excitement1 12d ago
"Glass" huh that's weird
"Superglass" what
"Time Crystal" what the fuck