What if macroscopic time is to the intrinsic dynamics of matter's energy what heat is to molecular motion?
Hello I want to propose a purely ontological thought: Is it possible that time is not just a pre-existing background, but a statistical and integrated result of the dynamics of matter? I think about this: A single atom doesn't have "temperature." Heat is an emergent property that only arises when you integrate and sum the interaction of many atoms. Could macroscopic time then work the same way? That is, could the flow of time that we measure be just the collective and synchronized manifestation of the energy of massive matter? I know that Relativity describes its geometry perfectly, but not its origin. Do you see it as conceptually viable that matter generates time and doesn't simply manifest itself in it, or does this present some logical impediment?