Re: is time periodic

[solar plexus wrote]
> > [EL]
> > Arbitrated geometrical time units can be measured by clocks.
>
> do you have a theory which clarifies your observations?
[EL]
Your question is demanding a yes or no answer, which I doubt would add
any substance to the thread.
However, I would rather reply to the inquiry:
"If you have an explanation that can clarify your observation then
please share it with us"

You see, the difficulty with time conception arises from the fact that
the human experience of time is diverse.
We live a life which is time-ridden and it is a single open interval,
yet measured in year periods.
We observe the reflected light from the sun onto the moon forming
shapes on monthly basis emphasising the month as a period.
We work and rest when employed on weekly basis emphasising the week
period.
Then we sleep and awake on daily basis, which emphasises the day
period.
Hence, we were already oriented towards inventing devices for higher
precision of time quantification by designing oscillating mechanical or
electrical devices regardless of the final readout interface, whether
that was mechanical arms or LED displays.
The essence of oscillation is the harmonic motion where a physical
phenomenon's variation oscillates between two limits where the
phenomenal vector quantity changes sign twice per period.

It is this overwhelming human experience with periodical units of
geometrical time measurement that makes it very difficult to notice the
underlying dimension of time.
While the physical phenomenon is changing state from limit to the other
in one direction, a non-arbitrated time scale must be incrementing or
else no transition would take place between states.
The unidirectional concatenation of that incremental time scale is non
periodic because we did not arbitrate a higher resolution than the
highest resolution (obviously) of geometrical time units.
Any attempt to measure time must force us to arbitrate or use a
previously arbitrated unit to count.
By dropping quantification (through units' arbitration), we are left
with a continuum of transition that holds the essence of time.
This means that it is not time that is defined by clocks but rather
that clocks are defined by time.
The consequence is to reverse the statement saying:
Clocks are devices designed with finite geometrical periods over which
a change of state followed by a return to the initial state constitutes
a unit of arbitration for measuring time.
What we read on a clock's face is the accumulated history of a change
of state since the last indication of a state reset, where such
continuously accumulated history might yet be less than a complete
unit, which indicates a phenomenal correspondence to the accumulation
of time.

Founded on our psychological confidence in such an absolute
accumulation of histories of changes of states, we confidently count
periods incrementally, where we add units of time arbitrations as we
count, and never do we subtract half units when each reversal of
geometrical vectors are being executed during each period.
Therefore, each cycle is terminated by a reset while our mental
utilisation of the cyclic count accumulation does not become reset
until we wish to do so conveniently.
While time is "passing", clocks engage by ticking their hidden forces
away, and humans engage lifetimes, knowing that previous clocks were
ticking before and other humans were alive, thus time never started for
a specific clock nor shall it end with any human's death.

We conclude that time is since ever and to eternity, infinity to
infinity, steadier than truth and more real than reality, non
repeatable and a reference for all to be.
Thus we can correctively say that "clocks are constructs that can read
time", but time is not a consequence of "what clocks can read."
Therefore the statement "time is what clocks read" is a false
statement, while the statement "what clocks can read, are arbitrated
units of time, IFF said clocks were functioning properly as designed
and observed locally" is a true statement.

EL

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