Measurement requires the freezing of time.

I am fairly unpredictable – because I am not an absolutist.

People speak of accessing – or needing to access – the 5th dimension. Is that because the next higher dimension, the 4th dimension, is already occupied, according to most physicists, by time?

However, every dimension must have time — which represents movement, or change within that context. Time is the measurement, according to an agreed upon standard unit of measurement — but is by no measure, absolute. It has no “separate” existence, It takes, for instance, two hours to travel to some destination. That is according to the standard called Universal Standard Time, or UST — a global agreement in which the world has been participating since 1962. One could say it was the first real step to a global order.

Let’s enter this cave. When I say “the journey takes 2 hours”, what am I actually saying? Is there also a prophesy, a foretelling of the future? If I am at point A, and then I travel to point B in 2 hours, my foretelling comes from experience—thus it is not prophetic. Do not most of science’s empirical prophecies fall into that category? Only some of the more esoteric ones might fall into the previous ones, and that is called to verify proposals — generally names theories or hypothesis. Be that at it may, our journey has taken us from A to B, thus a change has occurred, which is recorded as “a 2 hours distance”, which can be translated into kilometres. Say we travelled in a vehicle at 100km/hr, thus we can conclude that A is 200km from B. Now, although time is a constant here (due to the UST mentioned previously), the time it takes for the journey might differ. If I decided to walk, the journey would take me about 4 days (calculating at about 8km/hr walking 6-8 hours a day). Thus, although the space is constant, the time has changed as the speed of travel has changed. Thus time is not absolute, except in the abstract.

The counter would be that from an objective standpoint, if there was an observer, for the observer, the time would not have “objectively” changed. That is if the observer is moving at constant speed in relation to the two objects being measured. How do you measure 2 hours versus 4 days in the life of two people? What does less or more time actually mean in that context? Does it mean I had less time to live in those times? Does it mean I lost time because I had to walk, where you drove in a fraction of the …. external … time? Finally, what is time for a fly who lives only days, and experiences (or so I understand) everything on a shorter time scale, and is thus “speeded up”.

Therefore time exists in every dimension—it is just different depending on the dimension one exists within.