Bill,
Whoa!! Hopefully the regular participants in these forums will gravitate to your paper. Physics is stuck in its own hubristic loop and really needs to accept it is being left in the dust by other disciplines.
Hopefully you will engage as well, as you have much to add to this conversation.
I would like to offer up one idea, which was the subject of my last years entry;
We experience time as a sequence of events and physics re-enforces this by treating it as a measure of interval, but since it is only detected as an effect of action, we should think of it not as a measure from one event to the next, but the process by which change happens. Thus it is not a sequence from past to future, but the process by which future becomes past. To wit, the earth isn't traveling some fourth dimension from yesterday to tomorrow. Tomorrow becomes yesterday because the earth rotates. This makes time an effect of action, rather than the basis for it. So the reason different clocks run at different rates is simply because change happens at different rates. The presumed vector of time is duration, yet duration doesn't transcend the point of the present, but is the state of what is physically present between the occurrence of events. This makes time similar to temperature, rather than space. Time is to temperature what frequency is to amplitude. Time is the linear effect, while thermodynamics is the non-linear effect. The two sides of our brains reflect this, as the left side is a linear processor, while the right side is more of a scalar processor, ie. what rises to the surface, "instinctively." Thus it is associated with emotion and intuition. Scalar processes are like pressure, heat, etc. which explains why they are associated which the heart, which is a pump.
If time were a vector from past to future, logically the faster clock would move into the future more rapidly, but the opposite is true. It "ages" quicker and thus moves into the past faster.
Not that we don't experience time as a sequence from past to future, but then we still experience the sun as moving across the sky.
The problem is that as sequence, time is the basis of narrative and cause and effect, linear logic, so it is difficult to not think of it as foundational.
I could go on, but this makes the point and you may not want to engage in the conversations.
