EVOLUTION OF PHILOCHRONY

Philochrony has gone through the following stages since March 13, 2009:

1- Becoming, duration and time

Becoming-time duality, duration-time duality.

Becoming was defined as the continuous succession of changes that things experience. Duration was defined as the interval between two moments of becoming. Time was the measure of duration.

2- Duration and time

Change-interval duality, regular periodic duration (time), irregular duration.

Duration was defined as the continuous and sequential occurrence of phenomena delimited by a beginning and an end. Time was defined as the regular periodic duration divisible into equal intervals.

3- Just time

Interval, continuity is the physical quality of time.

Now time is defined as: a) the interval that relates physically two sequential moments of changes, b) the continuous and sequential occurrence of phenomena delimited by a beginning and an end.

Stage 1 is no longer in effect. From stage 2 the change-interval duality is in effect.

Becoming is a philosophical concept that means the process of coming to be something or of passing into a state. Duration is the measure of time (age).

Elvis Sibilia, Florida, USA

CONTINUITY: PHYSICAL QUALITY OF TIME

Periodic phenomena are the measure of time. Time is the interval that physically relates two sequential moments of changes. Physically because a state x of phenomena depends on the previous states. For example: A journey does not end if it does not start, passing through different places.

We do not perceive time, but we do perceive the effect of time on things, which are: aging, material deterioration and the replacement of the old by the new. Continuity is the physical quality of time and magnitivity its philochron quality.

Elvis Sibilia, Florida, USA