nikolai_42
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Cesium atoms, that "new type of atomic clock" (what you linked to above), and planets orbiting around stars (Derf's example) are clocks.
This is what I'm talking about when I say you have it backwards.
Frequency is "time." Frequency is the measure of the distance between two events.
Time DOES exist... AS A CONCEPT.
It does not exist ontologically, meaning, it does not exist outside of a thinking mind.
So what's the difference between event A (the first vibration of the atom) and event B (the second vibration) and event N (the Nth vibration of the atom)? Frequency is measuring something. It isn't spatial. The specific atom vibrates at a specific (theoretically fixed) point in space. Vibration A and Vibration B are recognized as distinct. Why?