THE METAPHYSICS OF TIME

Of the three states of time: becoming, duration and chronometry, only becoming is physical. Becoming is the continuous and irreversible succession of changes that go from the past to the future through the present. The becoming is perceptible.

Here the word metaphysics is taken in its literal meaning: beyond physics, not in its philosophical sense: the study of being.

For this reason duration (subperceptible) and chronometry (intelligible) are metaphysical. Duration is the interval between two sequential moments.

Due to its nature, time is magnitive. Magnitive and metaphysics of time are synonymous terms.

Physics can explain becoming: changes and movement, but it cannot explain duration or chronometry. The Metaphysics of time explains its three states.

Clock and Calendar are metaphysical tools because in them we do not perceive the duration but only obtain a measure of it.

In general, Philochrony is the metaphysics of time.

Elvis Sibilia, Florida, USA