> You're certainly welcome to completely ignore the question at hand
What I ignored was an analogy. Not an argument from analogy; and not a question. Just a rhetorical device, which I considered irrelevant, and didn't feel like arguing about.
> the base reference for everything
Caesium oscillations are a proxy for the passage of time. I can imagine a universe in which the rate of Caesium oscillations might vary, or be influenced, making atomic clocks unreliable. I don't know how one might measure the passage of time directly; I suspect it's impossible, and can only be done with proxies.
I don't see why you couldn't have more than one timescale operating and interacting. It's an interesting speculation. But William of Ockham advised against multiplying hypotheses; and I can't see what multiple interacting timescales might explain, that can't be explained without them.
What I ignored was an analogy. Not an argument from analogy; and not a question. Just a rhetorical device, which I considered irrelevant, and didn't feel like arguing about.
> the base reference for everything
Caesium oscillations are a proxy for the passage of time. I can imagine a universe in which the rate of Caesium oscillations might vary, or be influenced, making atomic clocks unreliable. I don't know how one might measure the passage of time directly; I suspect it's impossible, and can only be done with proxies.
I don't see why you couldn't have more than one timescale operating and interacting. It's an interesting speculation. But William of Ockham advised against multiplying hypotheses; and I can't see what multiple interacting timescales might explain, that can't be explained without them.