BREAKING: New Phase of Matter

Seems to me calling these oscillators "crystals" is a stretch, because time isn't a dimension: it's not possible to identify two points on the "line of time" simultaneously (indeed, the very notion is incoherent). What's being measured is the only time-point that ever exists--now--versus an imaginary (typically, _remembered_ ) time-point. Every time-point identified is always the same one--now--and thus time is a point, not a dimension. In other words, it has no measurable concrete extent, the "line of time" existing only abstractly. And if time isn't a dimension then these aren't crystals.

(I realize treating time _as if_ it were a dimension makes relativity work, but that's not to say relativity is correct. Given that it erroneously conflates the concrete and abstract into one allegedly real thing, i.e., "space-time", it's probably not surprising that it's incompatible with QM, because this credulity-straining conceptual maneuver is a big hint there's something fundamentally wrong with the model.)