Time Crystal

This picture of my favorite mineral cannot keep me from going to the living room to have dinner...

So one day later I am back. I have forgotten what I wanted to write yesterday. What a shame.

Under pressure, forced to be productive I have to make up something new.

Also close to my time crystal my wife is being annoyed by searching the internet for a new printer. A rather pragmatic aspect of life, although it makes me think about the inbuilt obsolescences in modern technical devices. What a shame, too.

By the way it is really a picture of my favorite stone, not a modern art painting or some pixels I glued together with Photoshop. It could also be the picture of a nebula in the outskirts of our galaxy. It is not. It is an agate crystal. Maybe even an onyx. SiO2 for sure.

The structure of its layered crystallization has trapped time itself. It is another clock: a timeless one, an almost eternal one.

One day, when our universe has contracted again, it might look like this, although the necessary observer might be gone by then.

Funny that quartz also determines the phase of so many clocks on our planet. But this is another story.

Caught between the McDonaldization of Society  and my timeless time crystal I am wondering when dinner will be today.

Too many people on this planet are wondering if there will be any dinner today, too many are sure that there will be none. I wish more of them would be able to ask the questions that am entitled to pose.

But this is also another story.

What a shame.