A Rational Cosmology: The Impossibility of a Universe Without Time

It has already been demonstrated that, whenever the magnitude of some quality of some entity is altered, explaining such changes in the absence of a time scale is impossible. However, it shall also be shown here that, even were all the entities in the universe to enter a period of absolute stasis, they would continue to accumulate the quality, time, uniformly, and their relation via a time scale would remain inescapably necessary.

Let us presume that two entities, A and B, enter absolute stasis (say, by coming to exhibit an absolute zero temperature by some means) simultaneously. Even now we see the need to relate them by a time scale, since we would observe a far different phenomenon had A and B not become static simultaneously, that is, had A experienced changes in its qualities while B experienced none, or vice versa.

However, one might ask, would one need a time scale to relate A and B after the instant at which they had become static? After all, their qualities would not change by definition after said instant. Yet, we know from simple observation of the phenomena around us, that stasis is not the only condition accessible to an entity. As a matter of fact, we have yet to observe a truly static entity in every respect.

Thus, we may assert knowledge of the fact that A and B do nothave to remain static once they become static; some set of future circumstances is possible that would render them dynamic entities (i.e., entities with some changing qualities).

However, if this possibility exists, it also implies that A and B can become dynamic simultaneously, or at varying times, with A remaining static while B resumes a changing mode, or vice versa.

Even from the nature of the above statement, it is evident that an investigation into which of these conditions takes place can only be performed with the aid of a uniform time scale.

If A remains static for X units of time, while B remains static for X+1 units of time, only a time scale can account for the difference of 1 unit, and only a uniform time scale can ensure that our tools used to relate the behavior of real entities do not equate X units with X+1 of the same units, nor with pi of the same units, for that matter, nor with any arbitrary number of units to which a relativistic time scale inherently renders one susceptible.

If the above reasoning is true of any two entities, A and B, it, if extended to a larger amount of entities, or, indeed, to the totality of the entities which are the universe, must remain true, for a larger multitude of entities will still have the potentiality of entering or leaving stasis simultaneously, or at variance with one another.

It is theoretically feasible (though practically never observed) for no thing to experience any change in its qualities for some period of time, but it will matter for an accurate explanation of that phenomenon whether the stasis lasts a second, a year, or a trillion years.

It is true that, during that period of stasis, no observer would be able to make such a measurement, since an observer is also part of the universe and would, consequently, also be static in such a case. However, humans have often had need to refer to time periods which they had never personally experienced, from the time of the formation of the solar system, to the era of the dinosaurs, to the history of prior generations.

The human mind, as an accurate judge of reality, possesses the ability to accurately relate measurements of the quality, time, in entities, no matter how far removed these measurements may be from the mind's own accumulation of the quality, time, i.e., the duration of its individual existence.

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