POEM(S) OF TIME
“A time crystal or space-time
crystal is a structure that repeats in time, as well as in space. Normal
three-dimensional crystals have a repeating pattern in space, but remain
unchanged as time passes. Time crystals repeat themselves in time as
well, leading the crystal to change from moment to moment.”*
Time
crystals
Once and
always aglitter
Concentric or maybe eccentric
To each
other
Digested by
black holes
to spill out
and appear
for you
As local
bubbles
Maybe
One of these
years
Yet never
In dreams
Of Pliocene
Apropos of
another bang
Of a time
crystal
Life years
away
Light years
of memories far
A plague for
some
A fruit
Garden of Eden for humanity
Epics are
pictures
Of personal
Pleistocene
In dreams
Of dreams
Dreamt
Bereft of
humor
Frequently
phantomizing
Times of
horror
Numbed by
Cramped by
Ruled by
Impersonal
inhibitors
Each dream
Each wish
Every hope
Lost in
epics
Of epics
Proportioned
And placed
Among your
very own
Cherished
and
Easily
vanished
Hoard of
Time
crystals
Ahmet C. Celebiler
April 23,
2020
* PhD defense of Lei Liao
“Space-time
crystals and analogue Black Holes in Bose-Einstein condensates”
