Strangely enough I am getting answers to my questions if by answers one means ' new ways to consider the question'?... and I do.
I am beginning to understand time as a necessity.
It does not matter if there is an intelligence that records it or an atom that observes it if there is change there is a movement from one form to another and change occurs in what English speaking humanity has called -time-.
At this point the question for me has become, does change cause time or does time cause change?
In a previous discussion some of the problems and possibilities of infinity were examined. In a way this tropic is just the opposite... is eternal sameness possible or will -time- as a causative force create change?
Brian