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Reference: Essays on Substance

Substance and Time

The classical understanding of Time is as follows:

Time is the eternally durable, unchanging background of the universe. Against that background all things in the universe are changing in a cyclic fashion This generates the idea of past present and future. Time moves in a continuous, irreversible succession from the past through the present and into the future. This gives us a dimension of time that is absolute and universal. Events can be considered to occur simultaneously across all of space. There is a natural measure of temporal duration between any two instants. In short, time provides a framework for understanding and measuring the duration and sequence of events.

In light of The Spectrum of Substance, the time of substance can be measured in terms of the cycles associated with the substance. We can visualize one long cycle of aether, simultaneous to which there are many cycles of energy. Furthermore, simultaneous to each cycle of energy there are many cycles of matter. The higher is the frequency, the more enduring is the substance at a location in space. This gives us an actual “spectrum of time” in terms of the endurance of substance. Thus, matter persists for a long time, and energy is fleeting in comparison. 

In short, the consistency of substance, which is higher for higher frequency, is also a measure of the endurance of substance. If the consistency decreases, increasing its motion, the substance becomes less enduring in terms of time. The greater is the consistency, the lesser is the motion, and the more enduring is the substance in space. The consistency provides an index of how condensed and enduring a substance is.

Newtonian physics assumes instantaneous awareness across the universe in which matter is enduring indefinitely; whereas space has no existence.

Einsteinian physics assumes awareness to be constrained by the speed of light. This results in simultaneous events across the universe being perceived with delays depending on the position of a material observer in space. The endurance of matter now becomes dependent on the relative motion of the material observer.

But substance has its own spectrum of endurance (time) in the universe, which is independent of the localized and limited (subjective) awareness of the observer.

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