All Basics that Are Wrong with the Current Concept of Time Crystal: Learning from the Polyatomic Time Crystals of Protein, microtubule, and Neuron

The time crystal concepts introduced by Winfree in the 1960s and Wilczek in 2012 have identical definitions. If a perturbed system's inherent clock spontaneously runs a new clock before returning to the original clock, then it is assumed that the system breaks time symmetry. If repeated perturbation recurrently generates new clocks, it resembles a crystal, together, its time crystal. One essential part of this definition is that the ratio of frequencies between the original and new clock is an integer, making the existing time crystal concept extremely controversial. By studying protein, microtubule, and neuron, we propose that the ratio of frequencies between original and newly created clocks is not low-value integers as believed for half a century. New clocks are not harmonics of the original clock. Time symmetry is truly broken. We detect the formation of new clocks at a 1000 times lower frequency range than the original clock, harmonics of molecular oscillators cannot exhibit an organized clocking behavior at 1000 times lower frequency than the original. Most importantly, we measure clocks remotely. No physical contact ensures a non-demolition type detection of the time crystal. Finally, we found many fundamental clocks, far from the original clock frequency, so its polyatomic time crystal. Thus, we not only change the basic definition of a time crystal, but possibly discard existing time crystals as mere harmonics.