PERIODIC CHANGES

Periodic changes are those that repeat every certain period of time. This is a topic that fascinates me greatly. For example, midnight is a periodic phenomenon. Two consecutive midnights mark the length of a day. Periodic phenomena can be temporal and wave-like. I will first refer to temporal phenomena and then to wave-like phenomena. Periodic publications are those that appear every certain period of time. They can be daily, weekly, or monthly. The year is another periodic phenomenon. In clocks, we have artificial periodic phenomena: the second, the minute, and the hour. Other artificial periodic phenomena are the week, the month, the decade, etc. 

The stars in the universe are governed by periodic phenomena. An example is Halley Comet, which passes close to the Sun every 75 years.

 According to their speed, periodic phenomena are classified as fast and slow. Temporal phenomena are slow. Waves are fast periodic phenomena. Waves are characterized by frequency, period, wavelength, and speed. Light and sound are waves.

Elvis Sibilia, Florida, Estados Unidos 

HOW LONG DOES THE PRESENT LAST?

The past and the future don't exist, but how long does the present last? The brain works like a clock. For children and young people (ages one to 17), the present lasts three seconds; for adults (ages 18 to 50), the present lasts two seconds; and for older people (ages 50 and over), the present lasts one second. This is why we feel that time flows faster as we age. 

Due to our subjectivity, we cannot measure time with our brain alone. We can synchronize our brain by listening to the ticking or looking at the digits of the second hand on a clock. 

 The brain's reverberating circuits synchronize with the second. We perceive time as a continuous succession of instants. 

What is presented in this article is a hypothesis about the duration of the now or present. This hypothesis is based on intuition and personal experience. 

Elvs Sibilia, Florida, United States

TIME: UNIVERSAL CAUSE

Time is the universal cause that generates both the processes of the microcosm (in atoms and molecules) and the processes of the macrocosm (in planets and stars). We understand time by the effects it has on living beings. Time is the cause by which living beings bb be, that is, they develop, move, and some beings replace others. 

The consequences of the passage of time are: 

1- Aging (there is no rejuvenation). 

2- Material deterioration. 

3- The replacement of the old by the new. The flow of time from past to future obeys the law of irreversibility. This law does not allow time travel. In biological processes, living beings are born, grow, multiply, become adults, age, and die.

Elvis Sibilia, Florida, United States 

WHAT IS DURATION?

Duration is the central concept in Philochrony. Duration is the permanence of beings and their changes in reality in a given place or state. Duration is the becoming delimited by a beginning and an end. Duration can be periodic or simple. It is periodic when something happens every certain period of time. In a body at rest, there is becoming because in matter there are changes at the atomic level. Time is to duration what length is to extension. Time is the amount of duration, and length is the amount of extension. 

On a digital clock, the second is the pause of the digits, the minute is the pause made by the digits on the minute hand. On the hour, the digits on the hour hand change. In other words, the pause of the digits is duration, and the numerical increment is becoming. This becoming is periodic. The ancients intuited time through the periodicity of certain natural phenomena, such as the movements of the Earth and the Moon.

 In conclusion, time is the physical magnitude that continually increases in value due to the duration of beings.

Elvis Sibilia, Florida, United States