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Time crystals are a new state of matter.

Why it is true

Time crystals are structures that repeat in time, not just in space, like normal crystals. They were proposed in 2012 by Frank Wilczek and created experimentally in 2017. They do not violate the laws of physics because they do not produce usable energy.

Source: Nature

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