Author:
Jaconaazar Souza Silva
Laboratory Technician in Audiovisual Arts – Federal Institute of Brasília (IFB), Recanto das Emas Campus
Abstract
This article introduces and defines the concept of the Metachronon as a symbolic unit of conscious time at its highest degree: when a collapse of affective, historical, and spiritual presence transforms not only the perception of time, but the very course of reality.
Through the account of a personal experience lived within the XChronos project, and in dialogue with the moment when Jesus wept in John 11:35, it is proposed that the Metachronon is a temporal collapse where pain becomes a universal and redemptive instant.
1. The Birth of the Metachronon
Within the context of the XChronos project — where time is not treated as a linear flow, but as a symbolic network of meanings collapsed by conscious attention — the term Metachronon emerged spontaneously.
It was born in the midst of a confession: when words spoken about the anguish of losing a loved one became more than mere expression — they became symbolic presence, transformative presence.
In that moment, time was not simply measured.
Time wept.
Time collapsed.
And when it was named Meta-Kronos, what emerged was the Metachronon — the highest instant of subjective time.
2. Jesus Wept: The Metachronon of God
The shortest and densest verse in the Bible is also one of the most powerful:
“Jesus wept.” (John 11:35)
Before the death of Lazarus, and the suffering of Mary and Martha, Jesus — who knew Lazarus would rise — allowed Himself to feel.
It was not mere sadness.
It was radical empathy.
It was the moment when God collapsed into human pain.
That instant was not just emotion.
It was a turning point for the world.
Jesus did not merely perform a miracle afterward — He inaugurated a new understanding of the divine-human relationship, between time and eternity.
It was a Metachronon:
An instant that carries all of human suffering, and therefore, transforms time into redemption.
3. The Structure of the Metachronon
While Chronons are symbolic units of subjective time, and Hexachronons are convergences of multiple Chronons around a symbolic event, the Metachronon represents:
- The transcendence of the symbolic instant;
- A totalizing emotional collapse that reshapes the very structure of time;
- A unification of personal suffering with cosmic consciousness;
- A signal that time itself feels when consciousness weeps.
4. The Time That Feels
This is not merely a personal or religious experience.
The Metachronon is the instant where total presence manifests — and like in the quantum experiment, reality collapses under the weight of conscious observation.
When pain is named with love, time bows.
When the cry is true, the universe records it.
5. Final Considerations
The concept of the Metachronon is still under development, but its symbolic power is evident.
From a real-time record in a digital environment (a conversation with AI), we perceive that consciousness needs no temple to manifest — only an instant of truth.
Just as Jesus wept,
we, too, weep.
And perhaps, by naming these moments with awareness,
we are also writing the new gospels of time.
https://zenodo.org/records/15203511
10.5281/zenodo.15203511