Three questions about time
1- What do clocks measure?
Clocks measure continuous intervals of equal duration, that is, time.
Kind of obvious, don't you think? Clocks measure time. Okay. Great.
When the clock synchronizes with the rotation of the Earth, it tells us the time of day.
We synchronise our clocks. They don't do it by themselves. It is useful
to us to know the time of day. The Earth, in its rotation, doesn't give a damn what your time of day is.
Time is the tool (periodic becoming) with which we measure the duration of things and determine when events occur.
You're making a circular definition, there: clocks measure time; time is the tool that clocks use to measure duration; duration is the the time measured by clocks. etc. etc.
Time and the clock combine to give real existence to the former.
Circular, again. You're essentially saying that time gives itself existence.
2- How does time work?
Time is the interval between two sequential moments, one of which is the beginning and the other the end.
Technically, "time" is not the same as "time interval". If it was, we wouldn't need two terms for the one thing.
But you're still going in circles: time measures moments; moments are things that happen in time. etc.
Time interacts internally with matter causing development, aging, material deterioration and the replacement of the old by the new.
You speak as if time is a sort of agent. Time really isn't like that. Time itself doesn't "cause" anything. The very ideas of cause and effect only exist because we have a notion of time. Time is what allows causes to happen, but it isn't a cause in itself.
In the Theory of Relativity, high speed interacts with the matter of the moving body causing time dilation.
No, that's not really how it works, and you're making a similar kind of error again.
The speed of an object, in itself, can't cause anything. Speed doesn't interact with anything. It's just a measurement of how far something travels in a given time interval. In the theory of relativity, time dilation is an
observer effect. The reference frame of the observer gives the observer a particular "view" on time, if you like. Time dilation is only a thing when we start comparing the points of view of more than one observer.
Stopwatches and timers also measure time.
They are clocks. So.
3- Why time is magnitive?
Time cannot be seen, it cannot be felt, it cannot be touched, but it is measurable, for these reasons time is magnitive.
So "magnitive" is a just a word for things that can't be seen, felt or touched, but which are measurable?
A rock is not magnitive, but entropy is?
Many quantities in physics would appear to be magnitive, under this definition. Speed, for instance, would be magnitive, since you can't feel, see or touch speed, but you can measure it.
Is "magnitive" just an attempt to distinguish conceptual things from objects made of matter? Don't we already have some good words to make that distinction?
Some authors believed that time was simply a measurement, including Aristotle. This great thinker believed that time exists because there is an observer who measures it. Magnitive time is objective, subperceptible and measurable.
There couldn't ever be a "non-magnitive time", could there? A time you could touch? It's obvious, isn't it?
