STAGE OF UNKNOWN TIME

Augustine of Hippo said: If no one asks me what time is I know, but if anyone asks me I cannot explain it. For many people time is an illusion and for others time exists but has no explanation. The english physicist Isaac Newton compared time to the current of a river in which everything happens. This is the stage of unknown time.

Since the appearance of the magnitive concept, on September 16, 2017, time has ceased to be unknown to become a known concept. From then time is defined as the magnitive amount of the extension of the sequential intervals (begining-end). Time is no longer a physical magnitude. Time is measured by counting periodic phenomena.

Magnitive is the concept that groups the three qualities of time:

1) Clocks measure past and future time (measurable).

2) Time is imperceptible and unobservable by physical equations.

3) Time exists independently of  consciousness (objective).

I have come to these conclusions by employing thought experiments for 16 years.

Elvis Sibilia, Florida, USA

MAGNITIVISM VS PRESENTEEISM

(This article is a continuation of the previous post)

Magnitivism is the doctrine that opposes Presenteeism in relation to the existence of time. According to Presenteeism, time does not exist because we only perceive the present. The past are only memories and the future are expectations. The past and the future are only illusions.

For Magnitivism time is real because the sequential intervals are objective. The term Magnitivism is derived from the word magnitive and the suffix ism (doctrine)

Presenteeism puts its emphasis on the changes and facts of reality. Magnitivism places its emphasis on the mathematical aspect of time. Between two sequential events there is an interval that can be measured. This interval is objective, real. The year 2021 is real because it measures the interval between the present and the birth of Christ. The time measures the interval between a moment of the day and midnight or noon.

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Look for information about the magnitive concept in the previous posts.

Elvis Sibilia, Florida, USA

DIAGRAM OF THE MAGNITIVE TIME. MAGNITIVISM VS PRESENTEEISM

 The magnitive time diagram exposes the different solutions to the problem of time on whether it exists or not.  

The magnitive time is (changing the order of the characteristic): measurable, imperceptible and objective.

Elvis Sibilia, Florida, USA

THE DIMENSION OF TIME (RAO)

The dimension of time is the Referential Activity Occurred (RAO).

A dimension of space is the direction in which the length of a body or figure is measured. A 3D body has length, height and width. A coordinate axis has a horizontal line, a vertical line, and a transverse line.

The RAO is obtained from the measurement of the Earth movements: rotation (day) and translation (year). The time is the relation between a moment and a day. The date is the relation between a day and a year. All events and phenomena are referred to the RAO for their location in time. 

The facts of reality happen and pass, but the RAO remains. The RAO is the fourth dimension of the universe.

Note:

Time is the continuous succession of irreversible changes whose dimension is the RAO, from the past to the future.  Clock is the physical-mathematical representation of the RAO.

Elvis Sibilia, Florida, USA

THE NATURE OF SPACE AND TIME

1) For Immanuel Kant, space and time are a priori categories of knowledge. Subjective time.

2) For the Theory of Relativity time is the fourth dimension of space.

3) Space and time are related because they are composed by intervals.

4) Space and time are objective and independent.

5) The space intervals are length and distance.

6) The time interval is duration, which is objective and imperceptible (magnitive).

7) Clocks measure time indicating when the intervals begin and when end (beginning and end). This is an objective measure; it cannot be an illusion. Although it is obvious, in one minute 60 seconds pass, in one hour 60 minutes or 3,600 seconds pass and in a day 24 hours or 1,440 minutes pass.

8) Time is the continuous succession of irreversible changes. Clocks measure time intervals or duration.

9) The proof that time exists is that we know for sure when an interval begins and when ends. Not in vain we celebrate the arrival of a new year, our birthday, etc.

Elvis Sibilia, Florida, USA

TIME IS SELF-MEASURABLE

Time is the continuous change that occurred between a beginning and an end. Time connects two sequential moments (before and after). Time is the physical magnitude that measures itself (it is self-measurable). The time of rotation and translation of the earth was adjusted by nature (day and year). Man created and adjusted clocks to divide the day into hours (24), minutes and seconds. The observer only records the days, years and measurements of clock, but these are given by the nature of time. It is not as Aristotle thought that time does not exist if there is no soul to measure it.

In length and mass the observer intervenes in their measurements, but time is always being measured.

Now the magnitive time is: objective, imperceptible (intervals) and self-measurable. It does not need consciousness to exist.

Elvis Sibilia, Florida, USA

THE MAGNITIVE KNOWLEDGE

In general, knowledge is the reflection in the human brain of the qualities of objects and phenomena. In Philosophy there are two kinds of knowledge: sensory and rational. The sensory knowledge is: particular, concrete and immediate. The rational knowledge is: general, abstract, mediate and linked to language. The new magnitive knowledge is based on measurements of time (clocks and calendars). The magnitive knowledge is: objective, mediate and mathematical.

Elvis Sibilia, Florida, USA