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yes I see like this, the motions create this time and we have created systems to measure it on a kind of irreversible entropical universal arrow of time.

I see this very simply you know. The motions rotations permit the changes, variables, and the evolution ,and interactions of exchanges, so implying a duration, we have chosen the second being the periods of the cesium and we have correlated with the hours and days and this and that . That is why we have the past , present and future and after in the general relativity it is a tool to rank the cosmology too because we see our past more we go in far in space like we see our sun More than 8 min after simply

Hi Steve,

When light leaves the Sun, it does so in the present. It travels to Earth in the present, and arrives in the present.

Hi Jim, yes it is in the present, the present is important, we exist in this present but this evolution and time permits the changes and variables, the sun was not the same 3 min before or will be not the same 3 min after , it is just a tool you know this time correlated with the motions and the changes.

Hi Steve,

In my view, we have only the present. There is no past, there is only the present.

Yes indeed the present seems the only one thing where we can insteract , that said this past has existed and that permits to understand the evolution. If the past had not existed, we d be not there, the past has existed. Yesterdy for example you were a reality .

If the Earth did not have it`s rotational motion, the apparent time of day would be permanent at any particular location on Earth. I might live at a place where Sunset was permanent. If that were so, I would have to travel to see the permanent Sunrise.

The speed of the Earth`s rotational motion is 1,700 kilometers per hour at the Equator. We see the constant effects of the rotational motion all around us constantly.

Of course we believe time is a real thing. It`s real enough for us.

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Hi Steve,

The Earth`s rotational motion is the fundamental physical mechanism causing our confusion about the nature of time.

Our Dinosaur bone evidence tells us there is no past somewhere. There is only the present.

Hello Jim, I am understanding what you mean, I can agree that only this present exists indeed . Friendly

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When we sleep we don`t know what time it is. As we awaken, we check the time. We check with our clocks, which are measuring duration elapsing.

For the rest of the day, we see the correspondence between our clocks and the world`s turning.

If the world did not turn, the apparent time of day would not change. The Sun would stay in the same position in the sky all of the time.

Under that condition, people would be less inclined to believe that time, a real thing, existed. They would be more inclined to believe that time, a real thing, did not exist.

The Earth`s rotational motion is the fundamental physical mechanism causing our confusion about the nature of time.

Had we evolved on the dark side of the Moon, we would not see the Earth. Under that condition, we would not assume that time existed as some kind of real thing, presence, or force.

The constant, relentless, rotational motion of Earth, coupled with the nature of consciousness, produces our experience of duration elapsing.

We consciously experience the state of time not existing. We consciously experience the state of nothing.

Motion does not create time.

I imagine a large number of people believe that time does not exist as some kind of thing, presence, or force in reality. Given that, the question is why do the rest of the people believe that time does exist as some kind of real thing?

If we found the magic switch and turned the Earth`s rotational speed to alternating between normal and slow, we would find it difficult to believe our clocks telling us that time wasn`t also alternating.

If the Earth did not have it`s rotational motion, people on the dark side of the planet would always see the stars.

The stars would slowly move across the sky as the Earth moved around the Sun.

If it was always dark? If the stars moved glacially across the sky? If you spent your life in the darkness, would you believe time existed as some kind of thing, presence, or force?

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"In the process of investigating all that, they will hopefully also help to establish the fundamental limit on how well time can be measured--by anyone, using any system. "Can we work out what the most accurate clock would be?" " from article,

Clocks do not really measure time but provide a regular scale for comparison with other events.

People on the sunny side, would always see the Sun in the same place in the sky.

If it was always light? If the Sun did not move across the sky? If you spent your life in the light, would you believe that time existed as some kind of thing, presence, or force?

Hi Jim, I understand what you tell us. This time is a parameter different than the others, I think that we have just correlated it with the motions and so we have invented a kind of duration because the evolution seems essential. The GR of einstein has considered this spacetime made of photons and so it is just a tool permitting to still rank the volution , that permits to rank the observable cosmology because we see a relativistic past and so that permits to rank the motions of cosmological spheres. This time in fact like you tell does not really exist, there is no particles in logic correlated with it, that said it is a paramter that we have invencted and the motions and the evolution them exist. The changes and variables are important due to these motions, because without motions, we have no change , and without change we don t exist in fact. Regards