"Conventional time t" is linear future-to-present-to-past while "RhythmicTime" is "onTime-lateTime-offTime-earlyTime-onTime," and is based on an organisms perception of lateness relative to a shared synchronization, or an "onTimeness" with other organisms. (Note that an upper case "T" and/or closed words are used to designate "Rhythm Based Time," whereas a lower case "t" and open words are used to designate "Conventional time.")

1) Temporal concepts are fixed scalars (as one's birthdate) or counting scalars (as the motions of a working clock), not vectors, and certainly not "an arrow." All scalars are quantities with magnitude only and not spacial directions or dimensions. Counting scalars increase linearly (for example the number of rotations of the Earth about its polar axes). In marked contrast a vector has not only magnitude but also direction. Temporal concepts have no direction (no north, no south, no up, no down) and no target could ever be hit by such a commonly imagined but non-existent "arrow of time!"

2) "All Real TIME is Now TIME," where "TIME" is a sum of "RhythmicTime" and "Conventional time" WITHIN A MIND. This, we believe, is one of the most important biophysical and psychophysical concepts in all of Nature, and it seems especially important to our human species, joining subjective, cerebral time to traditional future-to-past, objective labels of time.

3) One's past involves "timetags" of "Conventional time" and "Timetags" of "RhythmicTime," which are: "mental, inscribed or machine labels tagging facts." Such tags may contain the "temporal scalar labels" of what HAS BEEN PERCEIVED.

4) One's future involves "timetags" and "Timetags" consisting of invented sensory labels of what MIGHT BE PERCEIVED. Future and past are thus somewhat similar, but they are bridged by "Now TIME" which seems to act as a potential "hinge of symmetry."

5) Let displacement be measured in Cartesian, space coordinates. Then velocity is displacement divided by a duration (of time t).

Let angular displacement be measured in "cyclical space coordinates." Then angular velocity is angular displacement divided by a duration (of "Time T").

Let a "timetag" be "A Measurement ON (AT or IN) A Linear Clock." Let a "Timetag" be "A Measurement ON (AT or IN) A Cyclical Clock."

Let "A Mental Vector Process, MVP," move such scalar labels from: "A Clock At The Edge Of One's Mind ('Essos Edge')," to "One's Essos (mind) Centre."

6) An "MVP" is the "combination/union" of: 1) A Mass and/or Energy Vector, and 2) Scalar Labels (such as geometry, colour, "timetags" and "Timetags").

Define "Synchronization" as "Happening at the same Conventional time t." Define "SynchronizaTion" as "Happening at the same Rhythm Based Time T."

For a duration of "Rhythm Based Time T" to have mental meaning, there must exist "A SynchronizaTion."

Diagram 2

Let "Conventional time" be the usual lower case "t" and to avoid confusion with light velocity "c," let it also be "Ct." Recall that "Rhythm Based Time, RBT or T" is also designated as "RhythmicTime, RT."

Define "TIME" = "Ct + RT" ONLY as "Mental Vector Processes, MVPs" and/or "Mental Thoughts" (also called "Mental Thought Processes, MTPs"). This means that velocity vectors of "Conventional time, Ct," and such vectors of "RhythmicTime, RT," can be added within one's mind, and thus by equivalent definition, ON and/or IN, one's "Event Space Sphere Or Spheroid," (acronym "Essos").

"RT" is defined as "The Perception of Lateness Relative to OnTimeness." It is the encoding mechanism of "Rhythm Based Communication, RBC" and it was experiments in "RBC" that led to the discovery of "RhythmicTime RT."

7) "TIME" DOES NOT "FLOW." Only mass and/or energy can "flow." If a measurement of time t, or "Time T," ON a clock, becomes a scalar label attached to an "MVP," then said scalar label can be "transported" from one's "Essos Edge" to one's "Essos Centre," where it becomes a "mental reading OF the clock." This has historically given a mind impression of something "flowing" but this something is NOT "Real TIME." Thoughts can consist of many mass and/or energy "freight carriers" transporting their "cargos" of: geometry, colour, "Conventional time t," "RhythmicTime T," as well as other scalar characteristics of the objects and events of "The World" which we inhabit.

In other words, meaningful movements of "temporal scalar labels," in reality, actually exist in a union of: a) geophysics, b) "timetags" and "Timetags" attached to "MVPs," as well as c) a biophysical "Now TIME."

8) "RBT or RT" is bi-directional (say clockwise or counterclockwise) and may be associated with vector spin, including rhythms, and especially biological rhythms such as heart motion, breathing and body language. It can also be associated with geophysical rhythms such as the diurnal, or daily rhythm (perhaps the most important of all such life rhythms), a lunar rhythm and especially for most Earth organisms, the annual rhythm.

9) "RBT or RT" has been found as a communication encoding mechanism for low stress animals and as a result it seems an ideal candidate for a more prolific information flow throughout low stress Nature.

10) We believe that "All Real TIME is Now TIME" where the novel concept of "TIME" = "Ct + RT."

- - "Real TIME" Defined, versus "Conventional time" & "RhythmicTime" - -
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"Real TIME" consists of 10 components, some new to conventional science!

1) There must exist "a working clock," synchronized with "an ecosystem."

2) On such clock, there must exist "developing, temporal scalar labels."

3) There must also be a mass &/or energy vector impinging on this clock,

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4) There must also be a mass &/or energy vector exiting from said clock.

5) Such a vector must transport "temporal scalar labels" from the clock.

6) Said vector must travel into a working "Mental Thought Process, MTP."

7) Such a transporting vector is hereby: "A Mental Vector Process, MVP."

8) The "MTP," or consciousness, can analyze the "MVP" back to the clock.

9) Such an "MTP" can compare an external clock with an "internal clock."

10) If all these conditions are met the "MTP" now possesses "Real TIME."

"Conventional time" consists of one component, one "scalar clock label."
1) Such a "developing scalar label" must be conjoined with an ecosystem.
Said label can be like a machine reading ON, AT, or IN, a working clock.
It can become "real time" only if it follows the above steps of reality.
"Conventional time" counts as 1, 2, 3... from past to present to future.

"RhythmicTime" also consists of one component, one "scalar clock label."
1) Such a "developing scalar label" must be conjoined with an ecosystem.
Said label can be like a machine reading ON, AT, or IN, a working clock.
It can become "real Time" only if it follows the above steps of reality.
"RhythmicTime" counts: zero ("Now Time") to pi/2 to pi to -pi/2 to zero.

"Conventional time can be added to, but NOT multiplied by RhythmicTime."
"Conventional time + RhythmicTime," with above "reality steps" = "TIME."
"TIME" is: "The Mental Reading OF A Clock," and "No Mind, Thus No TIME."
Step 8 above seems valid for "Kingdom Animalia," and, no other Kingdoms.