A physical world is a system in which the logically impossible is permissible in fact. And what accommodates the difference between a physical system and a logical system is time and space. This says that if X is true then X is false. As a proposition in a logical system, it contradicts itself. A logical system cannot be consistent if it contradicts itself, and so there can be no reliable order in it.
Time is a device with which contradiction can be lived out in an orderly way.
Contradiction becomes oscillation when considered in time. There is a static, timeless stand-off between X and its opposite. They are two equal opponents in an eternal stalemate. Instead of cancelling each other out, one transforms into the other. Solely by comparing it with other oscillators believed to be reliable.