ZERO-TIME ANALOGY

WHAT DOES ZERO REPRESENT?

1- The nothing

2- An amount.

3- A space

4- An absence

5- Other

Zero represents nothingness, an empty space or an absence. Zero is the opposite of quantity, however multiply the number to its left by ten.

Let's look at this example:

25

2_5

205

In 2_5 there is a zero which is then symbolized by a 0. In this case zero indicates that there are no tens.

ZERO-TIME ANALOGY

The past and the future are linear zeros that indicate the absence of beings, changes and events. Time is represented by a 1 (present) and two linear zeros, one past and one future.

   linear zero        linear zero

---------------- 1 ----------------->

       Past    present   Future

Everything to the left of 1 is past and everything to the right of 1 is future. The 1 represents now. Now we have two zeros: the positional zero and the linear zero. In Philosophy the 1 is the Being and the past and the future are non-Being.

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THE CHRONOVERSE

The Chronoverse is the cosmology of Philochrony. Let us remember the definition that Philochrony gives about time: it is the continuous succession of irreversible changes that goes from the past to the future (before-after). The past and the future are abstract entities. We abstract them from our experiences.

The universe before the Big Bang:

           Eternity

<------------------------->

The universe after the Big Bang

      BB           present

<---I--------------I---------------->

              past              future

The Big Bang was the passage from eternity to time. With the BB time was created.

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SCHEME OF TIME DIVISION

In Philochrony, time is divided, for its study, into: time of duration (TD), time of sequential separation (TSS) and time of consciousness (TC). The TD measures the duration or age of beings from their beginning to their end. The TSS measures the distance between two sequential events or moments. The TC measures the psychological time. In TC, consciousness creates time.

The TD and the TSS are magnitive or physical. TC is subjective. Some thinkers who have supported the TC are: Aristotle, Immanuel Kant and Henry Bergson.

The word time, by itself, means sequential space, moment to moment and changes. The essential property of TD and TSS is their magnitivity.

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TIME AND ITS PERCEPTION

Previous note: Time is the rate at which changes occur from a beginning to an end. But only the constant and periodic rate is adequate as a measure (last definition).

We perceive time as an illusion because intervals are sequential. We perceive a beginning (before) and an end (after), but not both at the same time. This illusion seems to flow faster or slower depending on how old we are and what we experience is something pleasant or unpleasant. The FIT is the fast illusion of time (it seems shorter to us) and the SIT is the slow illusion of time (it seems longer to us). The IAT is the illusion adjusted to the measure of time. Remember that time is magnitive, it is not an illusion in itself. Clocks allow us to have a correct IAT. With clocks we synchronize the FIT and the SIT with the rate of the passage of time (constant and periodic). Tic tac tic tac tic tac ...

For its measurement, time (continuous) is divided into equal intervals (periodic).

In conclusion, we do not perceive the beginning and the end of an interval simultaneously. We do not perceive a material timeline. The length of this line is what we perceive as the illusion of time.

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