What is Time?

Physics tells us exactly how time behaves, and we measure it with ever-increasing precision. But we have yet to answer the fundamental question: what exactly is time? Energetic Time Theory provides an answer.

On the Nature of Time

"Time is the number of motion in respect of before and after." — Aristotle

"The present of things past is memory; the present of things present is sight; the present of things future is expectation." — St. Augustine

"Time is the ever-present measure of energy's flow." — Energetic Time Theory

The Revolutionary Discovery

For over a century, physics has described how time behaves with incredible precision, but it has yet to explain what time actually is. We have a circular definition - time is what a clock measures, and a clock is a device for measuring time.

Energetic Time Theory (ETT) breaks this cycle. It reveals that time is not a background dimension, but a physical property of energy. It is the measurement of internal energy transformation within a system.

This simple shift explains relativity's mysteries, bridges quantum and classical physics, and reveals why hot things age faster while cold things endure longer in time.

The Mystery of Time

A Mechanistic Definition

A Unified Perspective

Sunshine is my sight,

My cloak is the wind,

I pour the rain onto the sodden bogland.


I am the rhyme that you call time,

the future my promise, the past my wake,

the present that flickers, when I change my face.


I own you.

I am you.

I am energy.

But I am never free.