WHAT DO CLOCKS MEASURE?

If we ask a group of people what do clocks measure? surely everybody would answer time. The point is that everybody could not explain what is time.

Time is the activity occurred (becoming) that separates two sequential instants (duration). In this definition that we have chosen it reflects that time is a duality: becoming-duration. The becoming is always in the present and duration relates two instants that can be both in the past or in the past one and in the future the other one.

Clocks work based on two elements:

1- a repetitive, constant and regular event (tic-tac).
2- a means that shows the increment of time (display).

The subject's chromnesia is a third element that establishes the relation between the two sequential instants or duration. Even being like that, time is objective but intelligible.

PS: The becoming-duration duality (time) replaces the previous becoming-time duality.

VIEWPOINTS OF TIME

1- Physics:

Time is a magnitude measured by clocks. For Isaac Newton time is absolute and for Albert Einstein time is relative. For the Theory of relativity time is the fourth dimension of space.

2- Philosophy:

Time is a category nearby to space, matter, quantity, mind, consciousness, knowledge, substance, essence, existence, etc.

3- Religion:

Division of time into limited and eternal. It suggests the dogma of heaven or paradise where the saved will live for all eternity.

4- Philochrony:

Time is the measurement of duration and the dimension of becoming, not space. Time is relative, but inexorable. 

THE LAW OF THE ASTRAL INERTIA

Let's see these statements:

1- Gravity is a fictitious force.
2- It does not depends on particles such as gravitons.
3- Gravity has no charge, so it is impossible to shield it.

These three statements led me to assume that gravity is a fictitious force that depends on the Law of the astral inertia.

The postulates of this law are:

1- Objects on the ground or near the surface of the earth, or any other star, follow the movement of this.

2- The astral inertia is responsible that some starts revolve around others.

3- The movement of the stars was originated since the Big Bang.

Elvis Sibilia

THE BEING-THERE-STILL

The Martin Heidegger's existentialist philosophy is based on the concept of dasein or being-there. For Heidegger the dasein is time, existence. The dasein refers to the present. While the dasein-noch or being-there-still refers to the duration. In the duration we identified two sequential moments that determine an interval. When we exclaim in front of an object It's still there! we are using our sense of duration that is the chromnesia. Time indicates how long is the interval.

For Henri Bergson duration is a quality of consciousness. He rejected the mathematical time. Bergson did not relate the tangible becoming with time. For Bergson duration is a subjective becoming.

In Spanish, being-there-still is ser-ahí-todavía.

Elvis Sibilia

WHAT DO WE SEE IN A CLOCK?

In the case of wristwatches, some people put the focus on the brand and the material it is made the clock.

PHILOCHRONY OF CLOCKS

The philochroanalisis applied to clocks is to determine what is the duration, what is the becoming and what is the time in each of these devices.

1- The hourglass
In this device the whole sand is the duration, the continuous fall of the sand from the upper to the lower bulb is the becoming and the amount of sand that contains the lower bulb is the past time. The amount of sand containing the upper bulb is the future time.

2- The clock hands
The complete graduated dial is the duration (12 hours), the movement of the hands is the becoming and the time at a given moment is time.

3. The digital clock
Similar to above, the 12 or 24 hours is the duration, the oscillating circuit is the becoming and the time at a given moment is time.

4- In the video playback we can see the total duration of the same (eg 5:16). The succession of images and sound is the becoming and a timer is going to indicating the elapsed time.

All these cases can be represented by the straight line of time or philochron line:

....... Becoming
----------> ---------- 10 (Duration)
............. 5 (Time)

PS:
The duration is the not chronological measurement of becoming. In the duration we express the term from beginning to end of beings and phenomena in the reality. It also determines how long it takes an event to occur.

THE STRAIGHT LINE OF TIME

The notion of line or straight line was introduced by ancient mathematicians to represent straight objects with negligible width and depth. Lines are an idealization of such objects. Until the seventeenth century, lines were defined like this: "The line is the first species of quantity, which has only one dimension, namely length, without any width nor depth, and is nothing else than the flow or run of the point which will leave from its imaginary moving some vestige in length, exempt of any width. The straight line is that which is equally extended between its points". Wikipedia

The time straight line or philochron line is continuously making itself for sequential moments. In the philochron line there is a dot at a time on a constant becoming. This line has the particularity that it is abstract and objective, like all mathematical entities. This line is objective because we leave from the experience to relate two sequential moments and then set those ideas at every interval through a process of abstraction. The subject does not create the philochron line (time), just support it.

Representations of space and time:

- Space coordinate: (extension, stillness).
The observer can be at any dot of the coordinate.

--------------------------->
.......... length ........ sense
<--------------------------

- Time coordinate: (sequential becoming, the double arrow).
The observer only can be in the present.

................... sense and becoming
----------------------->> -------------------
........ past .......... present ....... future

Note: The Theory of the becoming-time duality was fragmented into various previous concepts and messages.