Re: Time, a consequence of physical processes



On 15 Aug., 07:42, Peter Riedt <rie...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Time, a consequence of physical processes

Time is a human concept; it requires an intelligent memory (such as
the human brain) to have relevance. Time and the notions of past,
present and future were invented by man to order events into a
sequence by identifying them as having occurred before, during or
after other events. Present or current time is a human sensation
caused by observing material objects not affected by change or
perceiving a sequence of macro events through human sensory facilities
as still happening or anticipating them when in fact they are already
physically completed or have not yet started. A unit of time is an
arbitrary time interval established for practical human purposes and
derived from and based on a repeatable cyclical physical process.
Duration is a period of time starting and ending with specific events
identifiable by man and separated by his units of time. All time
concepts are used by man to understand, describe and predict the
causes and effects of natural processes.

While time is essential to man, it does not exist in the universe or
in nature as an absolute or relative entity or anything at all. Nature
is concerned only with the state of the world as it exists at a given
instant. The physical state of the universe and the extent and
direction of the forces in it at any given instant is the cause of its
state at the next instant. Each instant is not planned, predicted,
measured or remembered by nature but comes about as a direct effect of
the previous instant. With each change in the universe, the past
(previous state of the universe) ceases to exist as a reality. Time,
whichever way defined by man, is not required for nature to function
or progress. It is neither cause nor catalyst nor contributor nor
participant. The present and future exist as a concept but not as time
and past time is but a consequence of physical processes.

Peter Riedt

Yes, the quantity 'time' is a human concept defined and based on
physical processes.
Please read the following considerations.

THE COSMIC QUANTUM CLOCK
TIME IS A MEASURE OF CHANGE
THE QUANTUM OF TIME

By Louis Nielsen
Treatise: http://www.rostra.dk/louis/

About the concept of 'time' there are many questions:
- What is 'time'?
- How can we define the concept of 'time'?
- How can the physical quantity 'time' be defined?
- Is 'time' quantized?
- Is 'time' connected to matter?
- Is 'time' connected to the evolution of the Universe?

My considerations about 'time' are the following:
The quantity 'time' is a measure, which we humans with our brains and
intellect have introduced in order to measure changes in physical
systems.
A priori 'time' is non-existing in the Universe. I disagree with
Emmanuel Kant (1724-1804) who claimed that 'time' and 'space' has a
priori existence. 'Time' is an a posteriori quantity, i.e. a quantity
based on our experience that we observe changes in nature.
Because processes are discontinuous this implies that the time
quantity must be defined as a
quantized quantity. Space and matter are also quantized.

THE UNITONS AND THE QUANTUM-EVOLUTION OF THE UNIVERSE
My definition of 'time' is based on the quantum-evolution of the
Universe.
The quantum-evolution of the Universe is a consequence of the creation
of more and
more fundamental energy-/matter quanta that are spreading out in a
growing Universe.
The reproduced quanta, which I call Unitons, are the 'buildingblocks'
of all matter and they are responsible for all interactions.
The Unitons - the true atoms - are the smallest and most fundamental
energy-/matter quanta in the Universe.

THE COSMIC EMBRYOTON. THE COSMIC EVOLUTION QUANTUM NUMBER
When the Universe came into existence it consisted of only ONE quantum
of matter, called by me 'The Cosmic Embryoton'. 'The Cosmic Embryoton'
had an extension which define 'the quantum of space', that is the
smallest physical length.
Gradually, 'The Cosmic Embryoton' disintegrated into more and more
fluctuating Unitons. The reproduced Unitons are spreading out in an
expanding Universe.
The quantum-evolution of the Universe can be described by a 'Cosmic
Evolution Quantum Number' which is 'ticking' up through the natural
numbers, beginning with the number one.
The actual value of the 'Cosmic Evolution Quantum Number' is equal to
the actual total number of Unitons.
When the Universe came into existence the 'Cosmic Evolution Quantum
Number' had the value one. In our epoch of the evolution of the
Universe it has the very large value of about 7*10^127. In our epoch
the Universe therefore consists of about 7*10^127 Unitons which
corresponds to 7*10^127 'cosmic quantum changes' since the Universe
came into existence.
(Se more about equations and calculations in my treatise).

THE QUANTUM OF CHANGE IS EQUAL TO THE QUANTUM OF TIME
The 'Quantum of Time' corresponds to the smallest 'Quantum of
Change'.
But what is the smallest 'quantum of change' or the smallest 'quantum
process'?
My Uniton-creation postulate:
The 'smallest' and most fundamental quantum process in the Universe is
the formation of one more Uniton. (You can study more about the
'Uniton Creation Theory' in my treatise).
One cosmic quantum 'jump' of the Universe is equivalent to the
creation of one more Uniton. The creation-process of one more Uniton
defines the 'smallest physical quantum-process'. This fundamental
'quantum of change' can give us the definition of the 'smallest
physical quantum of time', equivalent to 'one cosmic quantum of
time’.
The progress of cosmic quantized time corresponds to the creation of
more and more Unitons in the Universe.

THE COSMIC INCREASE OF ENTROPY
The above considerations can also give us an understanding of the
cosmic increase of the quantity called 'entropy'. The cosmic entropy
is increasing because the number of Unitons is increasing.

THE COSMIC DIGITAL CLOCK
The actual age of the Universe is proportional to the actual total
number of Unitons in the Universe.
We can define the value of THE INVARIANT, ABSOLUTE, AND DISCRETE
COSMIC TIME,
the age of the Universe, to be proportional to the actual number of
Unitons in the Universe.
Measurement of ‘cosmic time' is thus - in principle - a counting of
the discrete increasing of the number of Unitons.
The direction of time - the arrow of time - is equivalent to the
increasing number of Unitons in the Universe.
The cosmic increase of the number of Unitons can define a cosmic
digital clock.

Best regards
Louis Nielsen
Denmark

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