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All of Reality as we perceive it is Relative Awareness and ambiguous Time, one of the three essential prerequisites for that perception, is no exception: Time is Concrete & Abstract; Practical & Relative; Finite & Infinite.

But, despite its elusive and intricate nature, Time is very Real and a simple look at its appearances in our lives will give us solid information for our understanding.

TIME'S FORM
For millennia from 3500 B.C.E., precision time was the hour, the rotating shadows on Sundials calibrating the shifting vector of our Sun's rays. With the advent of systematic astronomical observations and crude clocks, hours, minutes and even seconds became divisions of passing Time for us as well.

Even with the scientific contributions of Galileo and Newton, prior to the Twentieth Century, the view of Scientific Time was still what could be called Practical Time: Time was still basically defined as a Function in relation to the periodic occurrences of physical phenomenon as we directly perceive it.

In our immediate environment here on Earth, we individually perceive motion around our relatively stationary Position within the three-dimensional geometry enveloping us. This "Finite Euclidean Space" [i] is where our "Mind" models Phenomenal Reality with the pace we call Time: our fourth dimension here. [ii]

This is roughly the phenomenal World Isaac Newton observed functioning within his Absolute Time and Space [iii], the World we live and survive in where .

"Time is the measure of change"
~ Aristotle

. in our direct experience of Reality.

A good mechanical demonstration of this "Time" of ours can be found within our modern "Atomic Clock" [iv]. Atomic clocks pace our steady World Time by measuring the precise microwave signal emitted by the atom's electrons as they change energy levels: they are our ultimate earthly time-keeper.

Our outward mechanical representation of Time is a reflection of our conceptual and psychological Time. This is demonstrated with the divisions of our forward moving Analytical Thinking in conjunction with our sequentially presented memory during the "Time" of our life here.
But even before this manifestation of "Psychological Time", a deeper primary division of Realities' presentation to us is explored in the study of "Phenomenology" [v], a philosophical direction that examines the hidden depths of our "Human Mind". Within our labyrinth matrix of cognitions and perceptions lie the primary divisions of Realities emergence:

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