Brief History of the Objective Time
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In addition, if one observes ice turning into water, the observer perceives this process through the subjective flow of time.
However, what really is happening is the transition from one qualitative state into another subsequent one, which determines the emergence of the objective and real, functional time.
The objective existence of the functional time can be verified even if real processes are observed indirectly, i. e. through a microscope.
Let us refer to one more example. It also justifies that every object determines its proper objective and real, functional time. It is known that all medicines expire within certain timeframe of 2, 3, 4 years, etc. (the form it is stated in itself deduces that every object has its proper time, in which it exists, otherwise it would be impossible to determine the expiry date of each specific medicine).
When a medicine expires, it loses its medical properties. In other words, medicines exist until it expires. In case of pills, for example, when they expire, they stop being a medicine and start determining their proper time as a physical objects.
It should also be noted that the functional time results from motion as a reason for becoming. The becoming should be understood as a substantial change associated with the emergence of something qualitatively new as well as the emergence and disappearance of objects and their states, along with their transformation into other objects and their states. The becoming that makes something that has not existed become existing.
The objective and real time is called functional due to the very existence of time and all its properties depend on successive qualitative changes in specific physical objects resulting from the realization of their potentialities and their interaction with the environment.
Thus, the temporal rhythm and current durations of successively changing states of an object or a process depend on those of the successive whole new changes in the physical objects or the process that determine them.
Since time as it is does not exist, beyond physical objects or processes that disappeared upon the embodiment of their physical potentiality in subsequent objects, their proper time is deprived of the physical meaning.
For being non – substantial, time must emerge with specific physical objects or processes before it can exist. Given that the functional time is determined by the period between the emergence of real physical objects until they disappear (upon the embodiment of their physical essence into other subsequent objects). Then, as already mentioned, new subsequent physical objects or processes determine their proper time in which they exist due to the non – substantialness of time.
The objective and real, functional time is determined by all objects or processes in nature, from an elementary particle to the cycles of expansion and compression of the Universe, if it switches back, since in this case the cycles of the Universe emerge and terminates.
Even if the Universe, that embraces all the objectively existing world, switches back, it does not determine time, since time is always finite, while, according to all scientific and practical data, the Universe is uncreated and indestructible. In this regard, the concept of time is inapplicable.
Alternating days and nights cannot be considered the functional time, since they are a consequence of the mechanical rotation of the Earth.
Alternating years cannot be considered the functional time either, since a year is the result of a complete rotation of the Earth around the Sun, that is, the result of a simple displacement.
Days, nights and years are the subjective time, since they emerge and exist only in the consciousness of a person.
There are a lot of micro and macro processes occurring in any object as a result of the realization of its potentialities and its interaction with the environment. However, the time of an object does not represent the totality of the times emerged at various levels of the matter’s structural organization. The proper time of an object is determined by a complex of qualitatively new changes occurring in the single whole.
A human being, who as any other object determines their own time, can illustrate the external manifestation of changes in a single whole. In this case, there is childhood, adolescence, youth, etc.
The term “proper time” is also known to be used in the theory of relativity. Through the lens of this theory, proper time is measured with a “good clock” associated with a body in motion. While the proper functional time could be measured with a “perfect clock” capable of accurately repeating the rhythm and duration of successive changes in qualitatively new states of an object or a process. In practice, though, the functional time can be measured with an ordinary clock with the account of the specific process course, that is the rhythm and the current durations determined by its successively changing qualitatively new states.
The proper time of the theory of relativity emerges only in case of an intellectual experiment. For this reason, it is the subjective time. If the observer is removed from the intellectual experiment, the temporal relationship will no longer emerge, since the postulated time, imagined by a person, emerges only in their consciousness. If there is no one observing the motion of a body, an object, there will be no association with a “good clock” that would measure the proper time.
The proper functional time emerge in the objective reality independently of a person's consciousness. The current duration emerge and exists regardless of the observer. Since there is no perfect clock that can accurately repeat the rhythm and the durations formed by the successively changing states of this process in the nature, as already mentioned, it can be measured with an ordinary clock with the account of the specific process course, that is the rhythm and the current durations determined by its successively changing qualitatively new states.
Thus, the time in the theory of relativity emerges and exists only in a person’s consciousness. The time of the functional concept emerges and exists in the nature without an observer, since it is determined by real objects and processes.
According to Yu. A. Romanov and V. A. Golichenkov, one of the fundamental properties of biological systems is their spatiotemporal organization. Its study is the most important task of contemporary theoretical and integrative biology. However, despite the interest in the spatiotemporal organization of biological systems and its paramount importance, this problem has not yet been properly reflected in research. [8]
It seems to be substantiated by objective reasons, rather than subjective ones. First of all, it is because science has been handling only postulated human – created time that reflects the objective and real, functional time, the time of the nature, in an inadequate way.
The opportune evidence for the above said is the formation of the time reflex in mollusk. “The experiment is the following: a mollusk is shocked with a weak current every five minutes. After the shock, it hides in its shell for a short time, and then continues moving. After the cessation of shocks, mollusk continues to hide in the shell every five minutes exactly. This indicates that it has acquired a time – reference system”. [9]
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