Dear Edwin Eugene Klingman:
I'm glad you liked my essay. You say:
"It's hard to argue that time 'exists' as a physical entity with one dimension, but it's an extremely useful concept."
We agree that "the so-called time" was and is and will remain an extremely useful
concept, and that it is hard to argue that it has a physical entity, simply because it cannot be
proven that it has it.
As for the experimental meaning of "so-called time" as "movement", it is not only
important, but I think I have proven that it is a constant and uniform movement that man copied from the sun movement, for reasons of practicality in the design of the clocks. In no way is it a cyclic
movement, and does not include the movement cycle count. On the contrary, the empirical meaning of
"so-called time" is "continuous". The cyclic thing is a mistake that I think originates from the internal
movements of the clock, in which there are many cyclic movements that are mechanisms like the
pendulum that were designed in order to achieve the constant and uniform movement of the clock
hands over the numbered dial.
To measure something continuous it is essential to create units, in our case, the fundamental unit was given to us by nature. The Day, which is the constant and uniform movement of the sun from one sunrise to the next, which the Egyptians after a long process managed to divide into 24 hours ... In the measure of the "so-called time" at no time does it imply the count of the movement cycles. I repeat the movement is continuous, the hours are not parts of a cycle but the arbitrary divisions of a continuous movement, which can be divided because the "so called time" is a constant and uniform movement, no other movement could be divided in equal parts.
We agreed that what is slowed down is not the "so-called time" but the clocks, the physical reason of such slows is the speed inertia and or gravity that slows the internal movements of the clock respect to the similar one on the earth surface.
To the "so-called time" dilation I would call it slowing a clock or any other
movement traveling at high speed and at a greater distance from the center of gravity, compared to the similar clock to the one on the earth surface.
If we accept that the experimental meaning of "so-called time" is "movement" we are accepting that it is a physical property and exists as such, all physical existing things are in continuous motion in the universe.
All the planets have different physical conditions, different gravity etc. so
each place in the universe has its "called time". I think there is neither the "now" nor the "instant" I
accept them as a reference to a very short period of the "so called time", this is continuous.
You could read if you haven't already done it, my explanation of the paradox of the twins, I think it's the only physical possibility that this could be possible.
I think I prove that Time is a measurement system
I think I proved that Time is a measurement system, which was most likely unintentionally created by prehistoric man. This one exists only as long as man exists like all the systems he created. This system measures "so-called time" which is actually a constant and uniform movement. With units arbitrarily created by man as already I said.
Thank you for Reading my essay,
Héctor