Wat is Tyd?

Abstract

Epistemologically the primary and most fundamental evidence of time is the association and coherence of time with movement and change. Evidence of the content and form of time is seen in
changes everywhere, also in consciousness and societies. Time is part of all aspects of the universe. The physical concept of time is generally considered to supersede the testimony of timeexperience. Due to Galileo, time has become a measurable quantity. Clock time governs and orientates today all of human life, be it social, cultural, the sciences, commerce, production. It
tells us the time, but not what time is. In the Newtonian world clock time is extended linearly from the present to the future and to the past by believing that the complex world is determined by
simple dynamic non-dissipative systems, which are in equilibrium. The natural world outside our laboratories and industries is, however, dissipative and far from equilibrium. According to the theory of the Nobel laureate Prigogine (1980, 2003) energy transfer in dissipative structures becomes a source of order, creativity and growth, introducing a new conceptualisation of physical time. He replaced time as a mathematical parameter by a time operator, T, to describe bifurcations in real events such as geological strata, volcanic landscapes and river gorges. This T-time is to be understood as the internal age of a system, which expresses irreversibility, directionality and an essential difference between past and future.