TIME EXISTS OBJECTIVELY

Existence is the state of things to be real or ideal. The ideas have subjective existence and they are classified into logical, emotional and imaginary. Logical ideas are mathematical entities: numbers, figures and measurements. Real objects are material and therefore are objective.

Becoming-duration duality is real and its measurement, time, is a logical idea.  Measurements do not depend on the view of the subject, therefore, in a sense they are objective.

Now, the perception of time, what each individual perceives, is completely subjective, a false time.

Anyway, whether in reality or in the mind of the subject time exists objectively.

PS:
- Objective 1: It exists in the reality (table, light, motion, etc.)
- Objective 2: It exists in the subject, but it is an universal truth (numbers, figures and measurements).

THE TWO PERSPECTIVES OF TIME

The two perspectives of time are:

a) Spatial.

For this perspective time is the distance gone over at an uniform speed. Sometimes the units of time are used as a measurement of distance.

b) Flowing.

For this perspective time is the duration measured since a start moment set.

SPACE <----------------- TIME --------- -------> DURATION
A priori ...................................................... ...... intuition
Newton and Kant ............................................. Bergson and Sibilia
Physics ................................................... ......... Philochrony

OPERATIONAL DEFINITION OF TIME

According to Albert Einstein, time is what clocks measure. But time is an indirect measure because the duration of something does not affect directly the clock. The clock only indicates the position of the Sun relative to a point on the Earth. It looks like more a space measurement that temporary.

Reference Proposition: We see the becoming, we intuit the duration and time is intelligible. The duration is the increased existence of something.

Operationally time is defined as: "t is (d), i" that is read: time is the measure of the duration since a start time set.

Process:
1- The clock shows 10:37 AM.
2- We look the time in the clock.
3- We intuit the 10 hours since midnight.
4- We intuit the 37 minutes since 10:00 AM.
5- We think the time 10:37 AM.

Without step 3 and 4 we only see that the hands go over the graduated dial of the clock.

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