Time Crystals: Great Revolution or Media Hype?

In Einstein's schizophrenic world statements and their negations harmoniously coexist (doublethink):

"For months now, there's been speculation that researchers might have finally created time crystals - strange crystals that have an atomic structure that repeats not just in space, but in time, putting them in constant oscillation WITHOUT ENERGY. Now it's official - researchers have just reported in detail how to make and measure these bizarre crystals. And two independent teams of scientists claim they've actually created time crystals in the lab based off this blueprint, confirming the existence of an entirely new phase of matter. [...] Imagine it like jelly - when you tap it, it repeatedly jiggles. The same thing happens in time crystals, but the big difference here is that the motion occurs WITHOUT ANY ENERGY." http://www.sciencealert.com/scientis...-time-crystals

"In 2016, new research showed that time crystals could still exist in theory, but ONLY IF THERE WAS SOME EXTERNAL DRIVING FORCE. The idea was that the time regularity would be somehow dormant, hidden from view, and that ADDING A LITTLE ENERGY would bring it to life and unveil it. This solved the paradox of perpetual motion, and brought new hopes for the existence of time crystals." https://phys.org/news/2017-02-crysta...sts-state.html

Time crystals in the absence of external energy supply are impossible. If the external energy is ambient heat, then the next Great Revolution in Science is just around the corner. If the external energy is different from ambient heat, then the respective time crystals are nothing but media hype.

Pentcho Valev