Reference: Postulate Mechanics
The Time
When we sense some substance, that substance must be persisting or enduring to some degree. This duration is a dimension of substance that is called TIME. When there is no substance, nothing is enduring and there is no time.
Objects that are enduring forever appear to be fixed, such as, the configurations of stars in the sky. Objects that are enduring to a lesser degree appear to change. For example, we have planets wandering among the fixed stars. These planets are changing in their location in space. They are not as enduring as the stars are. Time and motion are intimately related. The faster is the motion the lesser is endurance in terms of time.
Awareness of time is essentially the awareness of change. We are aware of changes in the external universe. We measure such changes by a physical clock. This gives us an appreciation of the physical time. When we shut out the external universe by closing our eyes, we continue to be aware of our internal universe of thought. We promptly become aware of changes in thoughts. This gives us an appreciation of the mental time. We find the experience of mental time to be different from physical time.
When substance condenses its endurance increases. This is reflected in motion slowing down. For example, matter is a highly condensed substance compared to light because its consistency is higher by many orders of magnitude. This is reflected in the free motion of matter being much slower than the free motion of light. Compared to light, the free motion of thought is expected to be higher by many orders of magnitude.
From thought to radiation to matter, we see time becoming more solid (enduring). It amounts to the increasing of the frequency of substance. Matter has the highest frequency. The frequency of radiation is lower by many orders of magnitude. The frequency of thought is still lower by many orders of magnitude. Black holes at the center of galaxies may constitute the most persistent substance of near infinite frequency. Science views time mathematically without associating any substance with it.
The planets, stars and galaxies are enduring. The environment of radiation and thought around them is changing much more rapidly.
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Comments
Is there merit in your opinion to considering time to be the motion of The Substance?
Possibly it is matter substance that is warped by time.
Somewhere in this discussion is a fluid running like a river and I have tried to make it be gravity; However, I now am believing that it may be time.
Time, to me, is a very complex concept. One aspect of time is the factor of condensation from thought to energy to matter. Another aspect of time is the duration of substance. Read Eddington’s Chapters 3 & 4 here:
The Book of Physics
I believe tentatively that time is awareness of substance. Substance is that which one becomes aware of. In the category of substance we have matter, energy and thought.
Time is awareness. It is the awareness of matter, energy and thought. Motion is a characteristic of substance. So, time is the awareness of motion as well. Space is also a characteristic (extents) of substance. so, time is the awareness of space as well. Duration is also a characteristic of substance. so, time is the awareness of duration as well.
Now motion, space and duration are all associated with the sense of time; and now we are saying that time is the awareness itself. So, it gets complicated.
Space and Time may be associated with the geometry and duration of substance respectively. But, space and time may also be associated with the awareness of geometry and awareness of duration. This is where the confusion arises.
We confuse the awareness of geometry with geometry. We confuse the awareness of duration with duration. In short we are confusing the awareness of substance with substance.
This is what I get when I contemplate on time. We are confusing awareness with what we are aware of.
Well, we didn’t have that confusion, but now that you’ve pointed out our confusion to me, I guess we do. LOL
LOL! I am glad you appreciate it!
Substance may be categorized as thought, energy and matter.
Awareness is a totally different phenomenon. It comes about when attention dwells on substance.
We identify awareness with thought, but we need to differentiate between the two as above.
Substance has duration. We may call that time.
But we have awareness of that duration. We may call that Time (with a capital T).
Gravity, in my opinion, is neither substance nor force. Gravity is the natural outcome of substance of different consistencies arranging themselves in space and time.
This idea may work for time, as it seems to get more viscous the more closely it associates with matter.
Here is the spectrum of substance: thought condenses in energy, which condenses into matter.
As the substance condenses its duration increases. Duration is measured in terms of time.
Space is defined by shape, or geometry as in mathematics. It is the shape of some substance, such as, matter, energy or thought. It is also the awareness of that shape.
Similarly, Time is the duration of some substance. Time has no relevance in the absence of substance. Time is also the awareness of that duration.
Presence of space and time imply the presence of substance.
Space and time are primary sensations that extend from the presence of substance.
As we cut solid particles of matter into smaller and smaller particles they ultimately reduce to fields of force. This field of force at first appears as thick electronic field as the one around the nucleus of an atom. As this thickness (consistency) of the field reduces it appears like an energy field, such as, light. As the consistency of the energy field reduces further it appears as a field of thought.
The solid particles are dealt with classical or Newtonian mechanics in physics.
The fields of material force and energy are dealt with Quantum Mechanics in physics.
The field of thought is now being addressed through Postulate Mechanics, which a very new scientific approach to the subject of thought.
Postulate Mechanics