Observe the above sketch. I'm trying to conceptualize a way of measuring time without using seconds. In a previous post I showed how to measure temperature using ratio, rather than Celsius or Fahrenheit. In this example I'm also measuring by ratio, by sectioning off a generalize area for each color, and designating each color with a fixed size, based on the observable visible light spectrum.
This example uses only distance. Time IS distance. The speed of light is 299 792 458 meters of travel distance in the span of 1 second. So if we divide that by our ratio. We can use red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, but I chose to only use red in this example.
Many of us conceptualize time as an empty increment of void or "nothingness" that gets filled up with "somethingness" upon the next increment. But in this example time IS distance itself. We are conditioned to use seconds to measure time and it's very hard to wrap our heads around alternative mechanisms to measure and calculate time. My poet friend suggest that we name this colored increment for measuring time, a Chromachron. How long did it take? 20,000 yellow Chromachrons.
- Chroma Crypto
Year 2, Mars 8, Yellowday