SCIENCE VS COMMON SENSE IN PHILOCHRONY

The main problem about the understanding of time is not its nature, but the differentiation between what is science and what is common sense in time. A science is the set of true, verifiable and general knowledge that describes an aspect of reality. Common sense is the sum of all the senses. By common sense we know that water wets and fire burns. Most people are in the state of common sense. Common sense tells us that the Sun revolves around the Earth, when in reality it is the Earth that revolves around the Sun.

1) It is common sense:
- Time flows or runs.
- Time is a dimension of space.
- One minute of pain lasts longer than one minute of pleasure.
- Time is what clocks measure.

2) It is science:
- Time is the change-interval duality.
- Time increases continuously due to changes.
- Physically, time exists in a continuous present.
- Mathematically, the time dimension is composed of sequential moments or nows.

Elvis Sibilia