https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/bvx4n4/watch-the-trippy-first-ever-footage-of-a-time-crystal > In a first, scientists have managed to capture video footage of a space-time crystal, also known as an STC or simply a “time crystal,” revealing the eerie pulsations of this very trippy phase of matter. > Captured by Maxymus, a scanning transmission X-ray microscope at Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin, the footage provides an unprecedented glimpse of the behavior of these novel time crystals, which were experimentally created in laboratory conditions for the first time in 2016. The discovery promises “outstanding new opportunities in fundamental research,” according to a study published this month in Physical Review Letters.