THE INTANGIBLE DIMENSION

The dimensions are characterized by direction and sense.

The abstract timeline:

-------------------I-----------------> 
..... past .... present ..... future

Space is tangible. Time has historic direction (not spatial) and sense from the past to future. The future is historic in potency. An abstract line is required to represent the intangible time to be intelligible. 

If space had one dimension beings would be lines and points. They would know the forward-backward (and viceversa), but not the up-down or left-right. In the time we know the beginning-end, but not the end-beginning. The natural sense of time is of the clock hands. Time is the dimension of becoming, not space.

Seven problems related with time:
(The choice of the Philochrony is in blue.)

1- real or illusion
2- reversible or irreversible
3- dimensional or dimensionless
4- objective or subjective
5- independent or spatial
6- tangible or intangible
7- intelligible or unintelligible

WHAT DO WE PERCEIVE AS TIME?

The answer to this question depends on how we perceive time:

a) changes are sensitive (becoming) and,
b) intervals (duration) and measurements (time) are intelligible.

The becoming is the inherent property of matter and bodies to experience changes. The duration is the term or continuity of beings and phenomena in reality: the world and the universe. The time is the interval or distance between two moments. The becoming-time is the continuous succession of ordered moments from beginning to end. No becoming no duration, no duration no time.

The concepts of becoming, duration and time are intelligible and their actions or manifestations are changes.

Notes:
1- The transreality is the set of abstract nouns.
2- The transchrony is the intelligibility of becoming-time and duration.
3- In general, all concepts are abstract, but concrete have a tangible reference.

Elvis Sibilia Hernández

THE FUNDAMENTAL MAGNITUDES

A magnitude is the quantity of a particular property. The fundamental magnitudes are: length, mass and time. According to their nature magnitudes can be: physical, geometrical and philochron. The length, mass, force, speed, etc. are physical magnitudes. In geometry are magnitudes: length, area, volume, pi, angle, etc.

The adjective philochron means:
- relative to Philochrony
- All last, long or short, but last.

Thus we say that time is a philochron magnitude because this is the magnitude of the duration. Time is not a physical magnitude because it is not tangible.

Let's consider the following relation:

ELEMENT     PROPERTY     MAGNITUDE
space           extension        length
matter         mass               weight
becoming     duration          time