I'm more confused, now. Some of the articles you linked to talk about time crystals as a type of perpetual motion machine, albeit one that is "exactly unity" instead of "over unity" as the crackpots would say.
If you have to hit the system with an impulse every once in a while to keep it toggling, how is it different than any other kind of resonant oscillating system? Is it that the cycle goes through states like:
* disorganized
* organized, directional
* disorganized
* organized, opposite direction
I still feel like the part of this system that is special and interesting is getting lost in the translation to lay language :(
If you have to hit the system with an impulse every once in a while to keep it toggling, how is it different than any other kind of resonant oscillating system? Is it that the cycle goes through states like:
* disorganized
* organized, directional
* disorganized
* organized, opposite direction
I still feel like the part of this system that is special and interesting is getting lost in the translation to lay language :(