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From Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 10thedition

Absolute space n (ca. 1889): space 4b
Space n: 4b: physical space independent of what occupies it called also absolute space

[iv] Atomic clocks give us phenomenal Time by measuring the precise microwave signal emitted by the atom's electrons as they change energy levels: they are accurate to one second in approximately thirty (30) million years [iv](4)and are our ultimate earthly time-keeper.

[v] THE PHENOMENOLOGY OF INTERNAL TIME-CONSCIOUSNESS

By: David L. Thompson

I. INTRODUCTION: METHOD OF PHENOMENOLOGY

"Edmund Husserl, at the turn of our century, set himself the goal of establishing a rigorous science, that is a body of knowledge that is not based on any presuppositions."
II. REDUCTION FROM DOGMAS

"First we need to suspend philosophical interpretations of time: time as cyclic or linear; time as maya or illusion, time as emanation from the One.

Secondly, we must suspend scientific theories of time. Many assume that time is what is measured by clocks, that it goes on objectively at the same rate whether observed or not. Newton thought of time as an absolute quantity, a measurable attribute of God's sensorium. Einstein says that time is a fourth dimension, mathematically similar to the other three, but relative in its quantity to the velocity of observers. Hawkins says that time starts with the big bang and was hugely accelerated during the first seconds of the universe. The phenomenologist, without denying any of these theories of cosmic, external or objective time, suspends belief in them in order to be able to achieve a pure description of how time is actually given to us in our experience."

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[vi] Contemporary psychology also examines "Time Consciousness".
The Time of Consciousness and Vice Versa*1

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Frank H. Durgina and Saul Sternbergb
Copyright 2002 Elsevier Science (USA). All rights reserved.a Department of Psychology, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania
b Department of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Abstract
The temporal granularity of consciousness may be far less fine than the real-time information processing mechanisms that underlie our sensitivity to small

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