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[–] davel@lemmy.ml 22 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Time crystals are a thing, they’re just not that thing.

[–] kboy101222@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I have never felt dumber than while reading that article and condensed matter physics, whatever tf that is

[–] SmoothOperator@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Solid matter physics would be a more straightforward name - it's just the physics of matter that isn't liquid or gas, which usually means crystals.

[–] turnipjs@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 months ago

But also any crystal used in a clock is a time crystal.