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There is no such thing as "time" in and of itself. Time is delta kinetic energy, from some potential energy source. A man with one clock knows what time it is, if he has 2 clocks he's never quite...sure... To wit, un-linked clocks(no master-slave relationship)will diverge(run at different speeds)even if they are atomic clocks kept in the same room under stable conditions. You can run a movie fast or slow, even hit the pause button on your VCR, yes? Look at all the world around you. Things run faster or slower, or not at all, thus t=dKE; time is the rate of kinetic energy release from a higher potential energy(PE) reservoir. Yes, you can put KE into a system, ie, increase its PE, but you don't see/sense/detect that increase in PE directly as that would be a violation of the first law of thermodynamics : energy is never created or destroyed, only transferred. You can ONLY see/sense/detect the dKE coming OUT of a PE reservoir, never going IN. Thus if you can't get this first part of the equation : t=dKE there is no use moving on to the full equation/TOE.