A New Era for Physics? With Creation of New Form of Matter, a Time Crystal, It Just Might Be

[rangerrebew]

A New Era for Physics? With Creation of New Form of Matter, a Time Crystal, It Just Might Be
March 8, 2017

Salt, snowflakes and diamonds are all crystals, meaning their atoms are arranged in 3-D patterns that repeat. Today scientists are reporting in the journal Nature on the creation of a phase of matter, dubbed a time crystal, in which atoms move in a pattern that repeats in time rather than in space.

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[rangerrebew]

I thought is was "accepted science" that matter could neither be created nor destroyed, only change form.