C004Time and becoming
Thermal time and DTT both challenge the idea that a universal time parameter must be supplied before the physical system is described. The comparison develops this distinction through a worked example and explains its implications for SMM/DTT’s nested generation, completed records and account of the observable world.
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C010Time and becoming
Thermal time connects temporal flow to a state, but modular flow is a group of reversible automorphisms. It does not, simply by existing, establish monotonic entropy production. The comparison develops this distinction through a worked example and explains its implications for SMM/DTT’s nested generation, completed records and account of the observable world.
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C016Time and becoming
Thermal flow is mathematically continuous in its usual modular formulation, whereas a DTT model may begin with discrete completions. A relation between them requires a limit or an embedding, not a verbal identification. The comparison develops this distinction through a worked example and explains its implications for SMM/DTT’s nested generation, completed records and account of the observable world.
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C022Time and becoming
Thermal time makes temporal flow dependent on the physical state, whereas SMM/DTT seeks a source process that also produces the states and spatial relations themselves. The comparison develops this distinction through a worked example and explains its implications for SMM/DTT’s nested generation, completed records and account of the observable world.
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C028Time and becoming
Thermal time uses ordinary operator-algebraic structures in which complex phases generate automorphisms. A split-complex unit with square +1 cannot simply replace the ordinary imaginary unit in those expressions without changing their mathematical properties. The comparison develops this distinction through a worked example and explains its implications for SMM/DTT’s nested generation, completed records and account of the observable world.
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C034Time and becoming
Modular evolution forms a reversible group, whereas a physical record-writing channel can be effectively irreversible for an observer. This gives thermal time and DTT a precise point of contact: the flow used to label accessible dynamics need not be the same object as the map that creates or discards a record. A worked example clarifies the implications for SMM/DTT’s generation and completed observation.
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C040Time and becoming
Thermal time supplies a candidate flow from a state, but a physical clock must still be coupled and calibrated to that flow. The comparison develops this distinction through a worked example and explains its implications for SMM/DTT’s nested generation, completed records and account of the observable world.
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C046Time and becoming
Thermal time is sensitive to the state and observable algebra, so it need not provide one universal synchronization across all observers. DTT’s outer completion likewise begins with accessibility and must explain how local flows can be compared. The comparison develops this distinction through a worked example and explains its implications for SMM/DTT’s nested generation, completed records and account of the observable world.
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C052Time and becoming
A modular flow can have periodic behavior in finite examples when the relevant spectral differences are commensurate, but a generic flow need not close. The comparison develops this distinction through a worked example and explains its implications for SMM/DTT’s nested generation, completed records and account of the observable world.
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C058Time and becoming
Thermal time provides a state-dependent flow, but a flow does not by itself select a privileged present. Every value of its parameter can label an event without one value being ontologically special. The comparison develops this distinction through a worked example and explains its implications for SMM/DTT’s nested generation, completed records and account of the observable world.
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