I've had a rather confusing thought with regards to time, and what the hell it is. I've been trying to twist my brain around the idea of the universe's "default speed". We experience time at a certain set rate because we're human and that's how we're calibrated. If your thoughts were slower, time would appear faster, and vice versa. So we calculate the speed of events based on the speed at which we perceive. [Psuedo-philosophical nonsense deleted].
What I became fascinated by was how anything actually occurs. What is the reference point for time, if nothing is actually happening? It led me to suspect that, in reality, time must be an emergent property of interacting forces,and we only perceive time because we are part of this universal system of interacting forces.
This leads to a rather obvious paradox: If time is an emergent property of interacting forces, i.e. the four dimensional geometry of interactions we perceive as three dimensional then the time aspect of everything would still have to be innate to the universe, like a phorm.
Is this a paradox? Is it any more of a paradox than the existence of space? I suspect I need to do some reading.
