529.00 Time

529.01 Time is experience. Time can be expressed only in relative magnitude ratios of relevant experiences. Time can be defined only in terms of the relative frequency of reoccurrence of relative angular changes of the observer’s environment, the relative frequency-of-occurrence rate being referenced to any constantly recycling behavior of any chosen subsystem of Universe[^17]. All experiential realizations are conceptually definable in degrees of angulation change and in relative frequency-of-occurrence rates in respect to the observer’s optionally chosen axis of conceptuality and to his specifically identified time-recycling rate.

529.02 Distance is measured in time. Time increments are calculated in respect to a variety of cyclic regularities manifest in our environmental experiences. Experimentally demonstrable cyclic regularities, such as the frequencies of the reoccurrence of radiation emissions of various atomic isotopes, become the fundamental time-increment references of relative size measurement of elemental phenomena.

529.03 Newton said that time was a very specific phenomenon, assuming that there was a specific and finite time that permeated Universe and that everything observable in Universe was occurring at the same time. It was Einstein who discerned that time might be relative to the individual observer. A majority of academic people and the vast majority of non-scientists are still thinking in terms of the classical Newtonian scientific conceptioning of “instant Universe.” While light’s speed of approximately 700 million miles per hour is very fast in relation to automobiles, it is very slow in relation to the “no time at all” of society’s obsolete instant-Universe thinking. It was part of the classical scientist’s concept of instant Universe that Universe is a system in which all parts affect one another simultaneously in varying degrees. Contemporary science as yet assumes that all local systems in physical Universe are instantly and simultaneously affecting one another in widely ranging degrees of influence. (And the degrees of influence are governed by relative proximity.) Whereas radiation, i.e., entropy, casts shadows and gravity, syn- tropy, does not; and whereas the tensional integrity of Universe and all its substructurings is continuous and omniembracingwhile compression is islanded and discontinuousit may also be that while light and radiation has a velocity, gravity is timeless and eternally instant.

529.04 All the time phenomena of the physicists are expressed in linear data coordinates, but all cyclic actions are spirals because there are no straight lines and also because lines cannot “go through” or “return into” themselves. There can be no experientially demonstrable circles as continuous lines “returning into” themselves. Lines cannot return into themselves. Therefore matter is a cyclic self-interfering knotting; whereas radiation’s waves are non-self-interfering spirals.

\frac{matter}{radiation}= \frac{knots}{coils}

Which reads: matter is to radiation as knots of rope are to coils of rope. Because there are no planes, a wave is a spiral. A spiral articulated in a direction perpendicular to our observation presents an illusory, wavilinear, planar profile.

529.05 Generalized principles are often called constants by the semantics of scientific specialization, whose viewpoint is myopically inadequate. Constancy is a time concept. Time is relative and cyclically terminal. Time is energetic, physical, and ever finitely evolvingwhich is the opposite of “constant.”

529.06 Minimal consciousness evokes a nonsimultaneous sequence, ergo time. Time is not the fourth dimension and should not be so identified. Time is only a relative observation, a set of local sequences of experience afterimage formulation lags of the brain. Time is not a function of space. We can discuss time as if there were no time. It exists in weightless, metaphysical conceptuality. There is a metaphysical timeless time, just as there is a difference between physical tetrahedron and metaphysically conceptual but weightless, substanceless tetrahedron. Instantaneity would eliminate otherness, time, and self-and-other-awareness. Instantaneity and eternity are both timeless: they are the same.

529.07 The concept of being alive may be inherent only in the eternal principle of differentiability, and of a theoretical number system, and of complexes of different numbers. Seeming consciousness and life may well be inherent only in mind-conceivable theories of differentiations. To perceive of and say “truth” involves the concept of “nontruth,” ergo, of differentiation. Ergo, an intellectual integrity of Universe evokes its own theoretical evolvement of a Universe of ever-multiplying problems and pure-principles solutions and eternal regeneration of multiplying problem-solving.

529.08 The measuring act always involves time increments of our totally available time of life and may be conceived of only in respect to local events in nonsimultaneous Universe, there being no overall largest size to be referred to. Einstein was able to show that every individual’s every-time employed yardstick of time (that is, the cyclic increment of imaginary reference) is always unique and different from every other’s, a difference that amplifies greatly as we enter into astronomical observing by individual instruments, whose progressively designed reduction of tolerated error is always unique and only calculable relative to each experience.

529.09 It is a consequence of the phenomenon time and a consequence of the phenomena we call afterimage, or thinking, or reconsideration, which has inherent lags in the time rates of recallability of the various special-cases and types of experiences. So the very consequence of awareness is to impose the phenomenon time upon eternal, timeless Universe.

529.10 It is one of the strange facts of experience that when we try to think into the future, our thoughts jump backward. It may well be that nature has some fundamental metaphysical law by which opening up what we call the future also opens up the past in equal degree. The metaphysical law corresponds to the physical law of engineering that “every action has an equal and opposite reaction.”

529.11 The future is not linear. Time is wavilinear. Experience is expansive, omnidirectionally including and refining the future. It probably consists of omnidirectional wave propagations. We seem to be talking about a greater range of known cycling. It is both a subjective “now” and an objective “now”; a forward-looking now and a backward-looking now which combine synergetically as one complete “now.” Because every action has both a reaction and a resultant, every now must have both a fading past and a dawning future.