Crystalline Time, what a great SiFi title!

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Physicists plan to create a “time crystal” — a theoretical object that moves in a repeating pattern without using energy — inside a device called an ion trap. Image: Hartmut Häffner

It appears to violate conventional physics but does it? Seems like this has some chance of creating a link between ‘classic’ and Quantum physics, maybe?