amrit,
Close. Thermometer is measuring motion. It is measuring the amount of motion against a pre-determined scale. Such as celsius is a scale of 100, from freezing point of water to boiling. Now that scale is a human construct, based on the fact that we use a 10 digit counting system, due to the fact we have 10 fingers. Now the boiling and freezing points of water, as well as the fact we have ten fingers, are a function of nature. That we should construct a measuring system from one fact, to measure the other fact, is a function of our consciousness.
Clocks are constructs to record various regular cycles of motion. They may not have much bearing on one another, such as the fact that the cycles of the moon, ie, months, are not neatly divided according to the solar cycle of the year, but since it doesn't affect our lives, we just used the concept to break years into 12 months and barely notice where the moon is. Whereas with days, it does matter that they have some relation to years, so occasionally we add leap days, minutes, seconds, to keep days and years matched.
Our minds function through reductionism, in that we try to find patterns in the world around us and if that doesn't work, we simply make patterns to fit our needs. Thus we cram the effects of all this motion into one concept we call "time."
So just as if we studied motion on a small enough scale, there would be no concept of temperature, since the motion would be too granular to have a consistent average. And so physics finds that on a small enough scale, time also disappears because the configuration changes are to the point of being statistical, if they exist at all.
