AaS! 60: What's the Deal with Time Crystals?

Published: July 18, 2017, 11 a.m.

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What\\u2019s the deal with time crystals? Do they break physics as we know it? Or are they merely\\u2026neat? What do symmetries and the conservation of energy have to do with it? I discuss these questions and more in today\\u2019s Ask a Spaceman!

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