Time Crystals and Creation

The Bible, from Genesis through Revelation, tells the story of the Universe from its origin as a spark in the mind of God (Alpha – “Let there be light”) to Parousia (Omega – “God will be all in all”). In other words, it is the story of everything.

But good luck with that! ‘Project Bible’ was two millennia in the making and reflects contributions from literally hundreds of ‘priests, prophets, and kings’ and their editors. Worse, it tells its story using a variety of  literary forms including lyric and epic poetry, rhetoric, law, narrative, myth and legend, anthropology, history, biography, cosmology, philosophy, theology, etc. 

It’s a great story but in the end it’s just speculation, right? I mean, it’s just as likely that the Universe came to be in a Big Bang brought on by negative vacuum pressure and that it will end in some form of Heat Death…no ‘God’ required.

But because there are so many oddities and mysteries about our Universe, it is tempting to look beyond the cosmos for answers. But aren’t we just mapping one set of mysteries onto another? Is God any more likely a scenario than negative vacuum pressure? And is there even any verifiable, denotative difference?

The Judeo-Christian model of cosmos assumes that the world begins and ends in a state of perfect order (aka the Garden of Eden and the Kingdom of Heaven). The author of the Book of Revelation (John of Patmos) called these two states ‘Alpha’ and ‘Omega’ respectively; Alfred North Whitehead called them the ‘Primordial’ and ‘Consequent’ Natures of God. 

Noting that both states are states of perfect order, we speculate that Alpha and Omega are identical in substance (pattern) even though they have no proper elements in common. In fact, the two states can be noumenally identical only because they are phenomenally disjoint. 

That said, contrary to Bertrand Russell, both states (Alpha and Omega) are proper elements in God while God is an improper element in both states. This is the mathematical version of the Doctrines of Incarnation and Trinity. 

Nice model… but there is absolutely no reason to think that such a structure exists or even could exist. It’s 100% speculative; compare that with ‘negative vacuum pressure’ which is about 99% speculative (in its role as the agent of creation). Still, 1% is 1%... just ask your favorite billionaire.

So for all our blood, sweat, and tears, we’re in approximately the same place today as the Pre-Socratics were…2500 years ago. That is, we were…until now! A team of scientists has created a physical entity that duplicates the logic and mechanics of creation. They have provided ‘Proof of Concept’ for Biblical cosmology.

Now no one is saying that this new ‘device’ is God. It’s no Higgs Boson (God Particle) for cryin’ out loud. It’s just a model… but it proves that a Universe like the one we live in is physically possible and consistent with Judeo-Christian cosmology.

To understand what’s happened we need to understand Time Crystals. In ordinary crystals, like salt or quartz, atoms are arranged in a repeating spatial pattern. But in a Time Crystal patterns repeat across time, forming a regular, repeating cycle that returns ‘home’, i.e. to its original position, over and over again. 

Best of all this ‘perpetual motion’ happens without any energy input. It creates no entropy (heat) so theoretically it could cycle on forever. But how is that possible? 

A time crystal is a state of matter that has periodic motion ‘built-in’ to its structure. It’s who it is. Motion is not something it does or something that is done to it: “Move or I’ll move you!” It’s not something added to what already is. Motion is what a time crystal is. No motion, no crystal. The crystal is motion per se; it’s motion, crystallized. 

A series of experiments by Leo Joon Il Moon, et al. resulted in the critical paper published in Nature Physics on October 14, 2025: 

“Using carbon-13 nuclear spins in diamond as a quantum simulator, we use microwave driving fields to create tunable short-time disorder in a system exhibiting long-time stroboscopic order… with controllable lifetimes exceeding 4 seconds…  (Plus) we demonstrate the capacity to encode information…”

English…please! The Alpha point is an instance of perfect order. So is the Omega point. However, the order of elements @Omega is the precise reciprocal of the order @Alpha. Like arrows reversing orientation along a Mobius strip, what goes around comes around (inverted)…and then comes around again (reverted). The periodic alternation of Alpha and Omega states is unbounded: potentially, it continues on forever.

But between Alpha and Omega we find disorder, aka chaos. So to paraphrase Shakespeare (The Tempest), ‘our chaotic lives are rounded by perfect order’. However the Alpha-Omega Gap need not be perfectly chaotic. Islands of local order may emerge as information from experience is encoded. We create our own order.

“The quest to define notions of order and disorder as organizing principles of the natural world is one of the oldest endeavours of science and philosophy.”  

At regular intervals during the drive cycle, the nuclear spins flipped their polarization deterministically, exhibiting the periodic behavior characteristic of time crystals. But halfway between these regular measurements, the polarization fluctuates randomly, showing no predictable pattern. This coexistence of predictable long-range order and random short-time fluctuations is the hallmark of this so-called Rondeau (round) Order.

“…Realizing the coexistence of temporal disorder on short timescales and temporal order on long timescales, stroboscopic order in the drive cycle coexists with a tunable degree of temporal disorder…” Something until now believed to be impossible!

So what? What relevance does this have for us? First, it offers a fully satisfying model of life as we experience it and, second, it offers a concrete, physical analog of Judeo-Christian cosmology. 

The perfect but reciprocating order of Alpha and Omega corresponds to Whitehead’s Primordial & Consequent Natures of God and to the Bible’s Garden of Eden (Paradise) & Kingdom of Heaven (Paradise).

Between Alpha and Omega, the Ginnungagap of Norse Mythology, kaos prevails: “…the earth was without form or shape, with darkness over the abyss and a mighty wind sweeping over the waters.” (Genesis 1: 2) 

However, this disorder is ‘tunable’, permitting local islands in order to emerge out of chaos and endure for ‘short’ periods, subject always to the inexorable vicissitudes of entropy. We call such islands ‘entities, organisms, events’. The states of perfect order that bookend the primordial chaos do not control the timing or the details. However, the Alpha and Omega points do embody certain essential Values (e.g. Beauty, Truth, Justice), organizing principles that work to ‘fine tune’ what comes in between.

So the discovery of so-called Rondeau Time Crystals, named for the ‘round’ form in music (think Bolero), is a major development because it demonstrates that perfect order and pure chaos are not incompatible. The consequences of this demonstration are mind-boggling:

The creation/discovery of Rondeau Time Crystals demonstrates that freewill can survive and thrive in a Universe that is ultimately ordered. Accordingly, it puts to rest forever the idea that what happens in the phenomenal world is the result of some masterplan cooked up by some omnipotent, transcendent entity (aka God). 

• ‘Faith’ then is the perception of noumenal order through the veil of phenomena. 

• ‘Art’ is the material demonstration of that harmony, restoring art’s original liturgical function. 

• ‘Grace’ is the manifestation of fine-tuning in the phenomenal world.

• ‘Miracles’ reflect the impact of Grace on phenomenal events.

Logos is the flip side of faith. It is the manifestation of the noumenal in the phenomenal: “At the foundation is the logos and the logos is with God and the logos is God…all things come to be through logos.” (John  1: 1 – 3a)

Logos constitutes the immanence of Good which manifests phenomenally as the so-called Divine Values (e.g. Beauty, Truth, Justice). Whenever we experience beauty, truth, or justice we witness the impact of logos in the phenomenal world. Logos fine tunes Kaos to permit the emergence of enduring order. Logos does not compel that emergence nor does it dictate its qualia; it simply makes it possible. Events are causa sui and sui generis. You and I must do the work! That’s the burden of free will. 

One final point: The Problem of Evil is most often cited by non-believers as their primary objection to Judeo-Christianity: “Why do bad things happen to good people?” Although the issue was thoroughly addressed 2500 years ago in the Book of Job, it remains a hot button item. 

The discovery of Rondeau Time Crystals should put an end to this debate once and for all. God has no control over the specific course of events in the created world! If he did, the world would not be created but just imagined. We do not live in the Mind of God; we are not figments of his imagination. The created world is real and we, not God, are its caretakers. 

Since we launched in 2022, Aletheia Today Magazine and Thoughts While Shaving have been dedicated to highlighting and promoting the convergence of science and theology. In our view, these are not contrary views of reality, or even alternative views, but rather two words for a single, unitary vision.

That said, we never dreamed that things would move this far this fast. The day is coming and indeed it is ‘already here’ (albeit still largely unrecognized) when no one will be able to call herself a scientist without admitting to theism. Like Job, albeit unexpectedly, I have lived to see this day ‘from my own flesh, with my own eyes’. (Job 19: 26) 

“Without logos nothing would come to be.” (John 1: 3b) Chaos would remain forever chaotic: think cosmos prior to ‘creation’. (Genesis 1: 2) Any apparently emerging order would be de minimus and instantaneous. Enduring events require subjective aim and that aim must originate in Value (i.e. the Divine Values). That’s what values are, targets, lures. Values are what motivate events and events are islands of order, an archipelago bridging Alpha and Omega, made possible by the Grace of God. “That is all ye know on earth and all ye need to know.” (Keats)

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The Energy of Explosion – Twenty-four Billion Years B.C. by Vance Kirkland uses his signature “dot” technique to depict an immense cosmic burst unfolding across space. Dense clusters of tiny points radiate outward from a luminous core, suggesting the violent energy and expansion of a primordial universe. The painting blends abstraction and astronomy, inviting the viewer to imagine creation on a scale far beyond human comprehension.