THE QUALITIES OF TIME 3 (Edition)

Becoming, duration and periodicity These three qualities are inherent to time. Becoming is the continuous succession of irreversible changes that go from the past to the future through the present. We perceive becoming as a succession of moments. Duration is becoming delimited by a beginning and an end. Periodic phenomena are those that are always repeated in the same order and have the same duration. In short, time is the physical magnitude that continually increases in value due to becoming and is used to measure the duration of things. Natural periodic phenomena are the year (translation) and the day (rotation). Artificial periodic phenomena are the month, the week, the hour, the minute and the second. Clocks measures time by counting periodic phenomena. Time is not a dimension as Relativity suggests because we cannot point to the future or the past. Time is a state of things. Like new or old.

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SOUND-TIME: ANALOGY

An analogy is the relation of similarity between two different things. Continuity is to duration what tone is to frequency in sound. These processes are objective. Continuity is the union between the points of a line without interruption between a beginning and an end. Continuity is also the occurrence without interruption of an event or phenomenon. Continuity tells us the magnitude of the duration, just as tone tells us the height of the frequency. Continuity is present in the three qualities of time: becoming, duration and units of measurement. In time there is continuity between the different moments of a phenomenon. If we perceive becoming, can we perceive continuity? Yeah. What we cannot perceive are two sequential moments as simultaneous.