Text: Dale Pond 09/28/02 Time is an interesting concept. I say concept because Time is not a thing - it is an idea - in the Mind wholly. The Rosicrucians have a phrase in their philosophy that says "mind assigns dimension". In other words Mind (consciousness/experience) is the measure or metrology of that observed/experienced. In the case of Time we observe a sunrise and the Sun's path through our sky - which is to say - earth's orbit or journey around its primary (year) as also its rotation upon its axis (day). This phenomenon is divided into discrete pieces, as you say, dividing a circle into more or less equal parts. This method gives us a "Time Ruler" by which the passage of Time may be recorded. More concisely the earth's movement around the Sun is an event. And the event is divided into segments or spaces; i.e., so much space covered in so much elapsed "Time". It has been said: "Time, in its simplest definition, is the progression of events." Dr. H. S. Lewis I like to agree with this definition for the reasons presented. But I'd like to extend this definition to include the variability of the event so described. This being earth's orbit which is not circular but is elliptical where the earth, in its travels around the Sun, is constantly changing velocity. Russell goes into this attribute of orbits quite well and ties or locks these variations into other effective attributes such as alternating potential, rotation (spin) speed, radius (distance from primary) and orbital velocity, among other similarly related attributes. In Russell's manner of presentation of these forces "locked" together we may see how all forces are indeed active as a single force. All forces, i.e., events, are One Event inextricably locked together. To consider a single facet or attribute of force as an isolated event is to miss the true nature of the One Force creating One complex Event. "Time decreases with potential. Time decreases with decrease in radius." Russell, The Universal One Given the many regularly varying attributes of earth's orbit it could be well said Time varies in a regularly, periodically or rhymically varying manner. Time compresses (days/hours become shorter) during the slower portion of its orbital velocity and Time dilates (expands) (days/hours become longer) during its faster velocity of travel. A Time increment (day, hour, minute, second) is less long during the earth's slow orbit and faster rotation while further from the Sun. A Time increment (day, hour, minute, second) is longer during the earth's fast orbit and slower rotation while nearer to the Sun. Another repetitive event occuring in the Mind of Man is music. A cycle in practiced music is the bar and this bar is divided discretely into a measure of Time. "(1) The division of musical phrases into certain regulated portions measured with regard to the value of the notes with respect to the semibreve, which, in modern music, is held to be the standard of time. There are two sorts of time, duple with two, four, or eight beats in a bar, and triple with three beats in a bar. There is also compound time, or time formed of the union of triple with duple, and triple with triple, each having a distinctive time signature. (2) The pace at which a movement is performed is called its time. " A Dictionary of Musical Terms Notice the second defintion given above is substantially the same as Lewis' defintion. By substituting the word "movement" for "event" we see clearly the correlation. It would be folly to separate Time from the events to which it is locked and of which it is the measure. Time is not a thing unto itself but an attribute of change. It could be described in a more or less scientific manner as the "degree of change" or "rate of change" of a rhymically occuring event. It is as Lewis points out the measure of the progression of the event. In this regards you are correct in that Time cannot be solely a "measure of space".

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