In no time at all.

   There is very little silence in quiet.  The birds still sing, the wind whistles in different pitch.  Entertainment happens when you pay attention to the present and forget about was and will be.  The mind can wander easily and that is a good thing - to think thoughts.  The rush of humanity passing by misses all the action.

   I am struggling conceptually with a topic peripherally related to energy, time and temperature.  For those of you who are new regular readers, the concept of time is in the flux box and i am attempting to justify the use of time by defining the concept in terms that do not include units of time.  You cannot define time with seconds, years or eons, because those are measures of time and your reasoning would be circular.

   Mathematics, especially calculus is all over time. Derivatives and Integrals.  But temperature measurement typically does not have a time component.  We get the highs and the lows and keep track of them looking for the annual extremes and the daily extremes, but that is the focus of the weathermen and not of scientific concern.

   Temperature is a measure of heat, but is not related to space or time, except at the point of the thermometer.  The air temperature varies from place to place depending on shading, clouds, jet streams and other factors.  Water temperature is dampened, but follows the same pattern of rising and falling dependent on surface area exposure to heat via light.  Phase change is a critical concept.

   Organizing my thoughts - temperature is a measure of motion.  Absolute zero (not the softball team), is where molecular motion is supposed to stop.  It is -273 degrees C, which varies from the F measurement that ameriknz are used to.  Really though - it is just an offset scale.  Makes me wonder what other concepts use offset scales that we don't even notice.

    So if you have an object, the field of the object is the area outside and inside in three dimension space of length width and height. The object starts with a fourth dimension temperature - beginning at absolute zero.  The wave-form collapses and there is nothing but space.  Let's start at room temperature instead.

    The 'room' temperature will be set at 300 degrees for convenience.  Gas laws apply to gasses, PV=nRT.  Notice that there are no time components in the equation, pressure times volume equals the number of molecules (moles) times the temperature.  R is a universal fudge factor - the ideal gas constant, which is used to make the math work.

    At this point, the post is getting long and my brain is moving too fast to write cohesively.  I am going to dampen my own field with a cup of coffee and think through the temperature ramp.  Remember where we are headed - to a definition of time that is independent of time measurement.

Namaste'   doc