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Physicists dream up ‘spacetime quasicrystals’ that could underpin the universe

Orderly structures that never repeat can exist in the melded space and time of Einstein’s relativity

A 3-D object made of smaller shapes illustrates a structure that has order but no repeating pattern.

Conventional quasicrystals can exist in three spatial dimensions, as in the structure shown. But a quasicystal that inhabits spacetime is also a possibility.

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By Emily Conover

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