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
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