How to Measure Time

When Michael Faraday observed that photons get polarized in the presence of a magnetic field, he concluded that this was but one effect of magnetism. What he did not realize, was that he was in fact observing magnetism itself. Polarized light is magnetism. Polarized light is not merely a consequence of magnetism.

The same argument can be made about time. Most people would argue that an atomic clock measures time. Very few would say that the clicks of an atomic clock is time. However, it may well be that most people are wrong about time in the same way that Faraday was wrong about magnetism.

It may well be that the clicks of an atomic clock is in fact time. In fact, if very carefully constructed, any precise measurement of time is time. A spring clock, precisely crafted, is not merely measuring time, the ticks of such a clock is time.

Just like magnetism is the coordinated spin of photons, time is photons doing work on inertial matter.

Any device that accurately portrays work done on inertial matter is a representative for the concept of time.

Increase the number of photons inside such a device, and time will speed up. Reduce the number of photons, and time will slow down.

Put a bunch of rats inside a strong attracting magnetic field, and see them live longer than a test group of rats outside of the field (provided the field itself does not kill the rats, of course).

Make the field repelling, and the rats inside the field live shorter.

Put our finely crafted spring clock inside the magnetic field, and note that the rats inside the field live equally long as the ones outside the field when measured with the local clock.

There is no time outside the clock. Biologic, mechanic or radioactive, it makes no difference. Time is photons doing work inside the clock, just like magnetism is polarized photons.

Consequently, there is no such thing as absolute time. Time is always measured by a clock. When we say that time speeds up, it is relative to an outside clock. It is not relative to an imaginary absolute clock.

Note that a consequence of increasing the number of photons in a space is that neutrinos are expelled. The increased speed of a clock's ticks correspond therefore to a reduction in space. Measuring the speed of light by using  a local clock and yardstick would therefore result in no change.

Photon traversing an electron