Genesis and Time Crystals

2500 years ago, editors finished work on an anthology of Middle Eastern Mythology and Hebrew Proto History that remains a ‘best seller’ to this day. With only the flimsiest observational evidence and no scientific method to rely on, the editors somehow managed to produce a textbook quality master work on Cosmology, Paleontology and Cultural Anthropology. 

In 2025, scientists made a discovery that reveals yet another layer of wisdom in the Book of Genesis; this time we’re talking about Physics. A team of scientists led by Leo Joon Il Moon, published a paper in Nature Physics (October 14, 2025) that details their discovery of Rondeau Time Crystals, a new phase of matter named for the musical form known as the round (think Bolero).

In a Crystal like salt or quartz, atoms are arranged in patterns that repeat periodically across space. But in a Time Crystal patterns repeat across time instead; they form a regular, repeating cycle that returns ‘home’, i.e. to its original position…over and over and over again…without consuming any energy or generating any heat (entropy). Their ‘stable state’ is a cycle! 

This much we knew already. But then Dr. Moon & Co. (Moon) focused on what happens in-between recurrent home positions. “In an ordinary time crystal, between its periodic returns to the home position, the system is evolving through its periodic cycle - it's continuously changing in a predictable, repeating pattern.” (Claude) 

Moon discovered a special class of time crystal, Rondeau Time Crystals, in which there is no ‘continuously predictable pattern’ between periodic home positions. Instead, the state of the crystal between home positions is random, unpredictable, i.e. chaotic.  

"Rondeau order shows that order and disorder don't have to be opposites—they can actually coexist in a stable, driven quantum system," said Moon.

Does this surprise you? It shouldn’t, not if you’ve read your Genesis and certainly not if you’re also familiar with the New Testament. Genesis makes it clear that creation amounts to the introduction of order against a chaotic background:

“In the beginning when God created the heavens and the earth, the earth was void and without form and darkness was upon the face of the deep and wind swept across the face of the waters. And God said, ‘Let there be light’, and there was light. And God saw the light, that it was good, and God divided the light from the darkness…evening came and morning followed, the first day.” (Genesis 1: 5)

Note that God the Creator does not obliterate the darkness (disorder) but rather separates it from the light (order). The darkness never goes away entirely but continues to intrude on us in its various guises: evil, temptation or attachment, sin, mortality (death), entropy, etc. 

The Gospel of John retells the Genesis account but adds some significant detail: 

“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God…All things came to be through him and without him nothing that came to be came to be. In him was life and that life was the light of men (sic). The light shines in the darkness and darkness has not overcome it.” (John 1: 5)

Once again, chaos is the default state of created being while eternal order is a manifestation of God (i.e. the Eternal Present). But God’s order, while eternal, is not sterile; it is fecund without limit. 

Genesis recounts how the ‘primal photon’ became the ‘mustard seed’ that grew to support the large and complex network of foliage that is our world today (Mt. 13: 31-32)… all while conserving the primordial order. 

The Garden of Eden (Paradise) is an atemporal state of perfect harmony (aka peace). But that order remained suspended on a sea of ontological chaos and eventually the darkness made itself felt in the form of a wriggling snake. 

Long story short, the ‘created world’ (symbolized by Adam and Eve) chose gnosis over nirvana and the world reverted to primordial chaos, aka your life! But cheer up, better days are coming:

Paul assures us that “Christ is risen from the dead… (and) as in Adam all die, so in Christ all shall live. Then comes the end…the last enemy destroyed will be death…so that God may be all in all.” (1st Corinthians 15: 23 - 28)

The current chaos will end in a state of restored order exactly as Moon predicted…and demonstrated…via his Rondeau Time Crystals.   

It is John of Patmos, however, who provides the clearest recapitulation of the Rondeau model:

“I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, says the Lord, what is, what was, and what is to come…the first and the last… I am he that lives, and was dead and, behold, I am alive for evermore…” (Revelation 1: 8 - 18)

“I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea. And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven…and there shall be no more death, or sorrow, or crying, nor any more pain: for the former things are passed away. And he that sat upon the throne said, "Behold, I make all things new.” (Revelation 21: 1 - 5)

“And I saw no temple, for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple.  And the city had no need of sun or moon for the glory of God gave light and the Lamb is that light…and there shall be no night there…for the Lord God gives light and they shall reign for ever and ever.” (Revelation 21: 22 – 23; 22: 5)

So as Moon would have predicted, the Kingdom of Heaven is the second coming of the Garden of Eden. The ‘substance’ (order, pattern) is identical though the ‘accidents’ (concrete details) are all new: a new heaven, a new earth, a new Jerusalem. But after a long, chaotic winter, God’s primordial order is restored: (Harmony → Chaos → Harmony) = Rondeau Order. 

“Hohohoho, Mister Finn, you’re going to be Mister Finnagain. Comeday morm and, O, you’re vine! Sendday’s even and, ah you’re vinegar!” (Finnegan’s Wake)  

But what of the gap between Alpha and Omega? It’s chaotic but not necessarily perfectly so.  The chaos is ‘tunable’ allowing islands of local order to emerge as experience generates information which we in turn encode in the otherwise disordered elements. We call such islands ‘entities, organisms, societies, communities, events’.

Doing our very best imitation of God, we create our own order. But these islands of order are continuously eroded by the inexorable vicissitudes of entropy.  Our world remains chaotic. 

The states of perfect order that bookend the primordial chaos do not control the timing or the details of these eruptions of order. However, the Alpha and Omega points do embody certain essential Values (e.g. Beauty, Truth, Justice), organizing principles that ‘fine tune’ everything. 

Value transcends chaos; by their nature values are universal and eternal so no state of being can isolate itself from them. They fine tune the chaos so that they are felt as lures that inspire the emergence of local order. 

Think IKEA! There’s a piece of kitchen furniture that you’ve had your eye on for sometime. You’re looking at the in-store model, the Alpha state; and you decide to order the kit. You’ve shopped IKEA before, so you’re not surprised when the box arrives with the parts in a heap. Fortunately, the box also includes a schematic suggesting how the parts might be put together to produce a second copy of the furniture item, the Omega state, in your kitchen.

You do your best but somehow the finished piece does not look like the model. It’s ‘serviceable’ but you don’t expect it to last long, or to bear a heavy load. 

Nevertheless, congratulations are ‘in order’ (pun intended). You’ve just earned yourself a PhD in Ontology. You moved from Alpha to Chaos, but guided by a set of transcendent values (i.e. directions), you attempted to move out of Chaos to Omega; but of course, you were only partially successful (if that).

This is life, yours and mine. Thanks to ‘Adam’, we are immersed in the world’s chaotic phase. Thanks to Christ, we are resurrected in Omega.

The discovery of so-called Rondeau Time Crystals demonstrates that perfect order and pure chaos are not incompatible…and the consequences are mind-blowing: Freewill survives and thrives locally in a Universe that is globally determined and ordered. 

Events require a trigger, a ‘subjective aim’, that points toward a transcendent Value. That’s what values are, targets, lures, sparks. Values provide the motivation necessary for a rich variety of events to emerge out of a chaotic background. 

Ain’t Nature grand? Turns out, we can have our cake and eat it too. In fact, we must. We are free agents in an undetermined world; but we are able to create order in our immediate environment. 

But unlike Ozymandias, we do not vainly imagine that that order will survive the ravages of time. However, we can be confident that the order we create, once created and to the extent that it is compatible with the global order (God’s nature?), is eternal. Order and chaos are not incompatible; they are mutually reinforcing.

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Joan Miró’s The Harlequin’s Carnival (1924–25) turns a small interior room into a teeming world of playful, dream-like creatures that seem to defy gravity and logic. Within the thinly defined walls and table—symbols of everyday structure—Miró unleashes a riot of floating symbols, musical forms, and biomorphic figures that animate the space with chaotic, subconscious energy. The result is a visual metaphor for how the orderly surface of life is constantly stirred by inner imagination, spontaneity, and the unpredictable movement of the mind.