Pendulums, circles, waves, vortices, electrons, ellipses, spirals… What kind of «clock» could be built with all this? Or better yet, what kind of «time» would it be measuring, counting, calculating? Furthermore, would it be calculating it, or rather indicating it?
To speak of the third principle of dynamics is to speak of the very concept of reciprocity —within closed systems. The reciprocity of relativistic reference frames is purely mathematical, since it is not bound to centers of mass —but the same applies to forces in ellipses according to Newton.
Relativistic simultaneity, even the local determinism of quantum mechanics, is embedded in the basic Newtonian assumption of the global synchronizer, the absolute time in which the third principle does not take place sequentially but simultaneously. But the same vortex of Newton’s bucket experiment, as Pinheiro notes, denies this absolute time in the most convincing and categorical way —and not only for instinct, which is always stronger than metaphysics. The thermomechanical reading allows us to obtain more information, as well as another type of indication. And that same vortex is already a completely different model of clock, that we should learn to contemplate —if to contemplate something, in this our artificial world, we have to start by being able to somehow reproduce it.
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