Going back a long long time ago Mayan civilization was into Time in a big way. When it comes to that so were lots of other civilizations. Time is not a particular one to all. It can be different to observers in different places and if some one is moving and the other is not.
We all debate whether it is something we feel as some kind of sensation. Does it matter? I do not have an opinion on that, as it is not in my logic. After thousands of years of observing the sun and the moon we have a 24 hour day etc. When we made use of powerful radio telescopes we timed our earth's rotation with reference to a distant quasar. But when considerd that 600 million years ago we had 22hr day we knew we have to find another way.. Now we have a cesium atom being bombarded with energy to move an electron to an outer shell, then wait for the electron to move to inner shell. When that happens a photon is emitted with a certain frequency. Yeah all our international clocks are timed with that contraption.
Then we know that; when we go to the quantum levels, we notice that time is in quanta-tic little bits of time which keeps on adding. Hmmm I like this.
So we can call this lowest unit of time: TIMETON.
We cannot measure anything smaller than the Plank's Constant viz. 6.62607004 × 10-34 m2 kg / s
So Timeton is just that or to be sure make it 6.0× 10-34 s .
Bit of help from Wiki
Try "What Is Time? One Physicist Hunts for the Ultimate Theory"
Why not Read this which summarises thus:
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clocks are used for convenience. The motion could have been compared directly.
2. Motion alone is not enough to explain time. Forces also appear to be part of time. Arrow of time may be explained if we think of
time as presence of forces and motion.
3. Perception of time as past present and future gives us the illusion of the passage of time as well as the block universe view of
time. Above it is shown that this perception may just be an illusion and time is more like memory and recording devices.
The similarity of time characteristic of past present and future in historical events and made up stories also suggests that our
perception of time is an illusion and this aspect of time is also like a record. The fact that the present which gives us the most
real feel of time cannot be measured while the inaccessible past and future can be measured as durations strongly suggests
that the way we perceive time (present-ism or the block universe view) is an illusion.
4. Slowing of time in motion and gravity does not lead to disappearance into the past as should happen if there was block universe.
Absence of time travellers from futuristic advanced civilizations is also against the concept of the block universe.
5. The concept of origin of the universe in the Big Bang is at complete odds with the block universe view of time. If the block universe
which is supposed to be laid out as a time-scape (from the past to the present to the infinite future) exists and began in big bang
then it would mean that all of the time up to the infinite future would come into existence in the instant of the big bang. This idea is
truly preposterous.
6. Slowing of time in gravity and in motion as well as the ultimate speed limit c provides us the necessary clues to understanding the
cause of the phenomenon of time however we need to first convince ourselves that time is a process that is linked to motion and
forces and the block universe view of time is not correct.
Another one with this summary
1. What is time?
2. Is time a dimension?
3. Why time is related to the curvature of space?
4. How mass causes space to curve?
5. What causes time dilation in gravity?
6. What is gravity and why gravity is only attractive?
7. What causes time dilation in motion?
8. How speed of light remains constant in moving objects?
9. What accelerating universal expansion is really telling us?
10. What causes length contraction?
11. How masses move through the structure of space without any resistance?
12. What causes inertia?
13. Why objects gain mass with increase in velocity?
14. Why despite the runaway gravity of the black holes they do not disappear from the universe?
15. Is there singularity in black holes?
16. Why time has a direction?
