BREAKING: New Phase of Matter

As none of the energy of the laser is being absorbed by the system, would it be acceptable to say that the laser is serving as a tool allowing us to observe the structure of the system? If so, then instead of saying the qubits flip with a multiple integer of the length of the pulses of light, would it be easier conceptually to say that one can use a laser to measure the distance in time between layers of a time crystal? In this particular case the distance in time between layers (ΔT) was observed to be x pulses. This would of course vary between time crystals similar to natural variations in the structures of the three dimensional crystals with which you opened the video. 

I would be really interested in your conception of time crystals as seen through the lens of Dr Melvin Vopson's theory that information is a state of matter. My favorite way to conceptualize a unification of this theory is to say that if mass is a propery of energy (m=e/c^2) and information is a state of matter then mass could be though of as information at rest,
 or "information storage" and energy absorption/explusion causing changes in state of said matter could be viewed as rewriting information on the hard drive that is the universe. 
https://phys.org/news/2022-03-state-universe.html