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[ldsoftwaresteve]

dkv, I liked your statement that proposed using the characteristics of the smallest particle for measuring time and space. I liked it because it was kind of novel.

Still, it simply changes the units of measure. Time would be measured by using an event, nothing different from a clock or radioactive decay.

What causes the event within the smallest particle? What causes the change that we use as reference to measure other changes?

Perhaps I am making the same mistake as many of you are making, if indeed it is a mistake. I am working from a model, my model. And that model says that change is an effect and has a cause. I don't consider change as primary. I consider it as secondary.

So any discussion involves a model of existence. Or at the very least, it involves assumptions about the basic nature of existence and that sure feels like a model.

I would say that the cause of change is a fundamental thing. Perhaps it is the fundamental thing. Time is just our way of relating our awareness of one change to another.

There is one thing that we could actually conclude about change, in a generic physics sense. Since we can relate one change to another and the relationships remain constant, all change might have a common cause.

Forgive me if it sounds like I'm repeating myself. Each time I do, it feels like another layer being peeled away or my understanding is becoming more solid. This time I've included Ansii's 'fundamental' reference and hopefully in a proper and hygenic way.