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to avoid accusations of being brain-sucked, I have decided to weigh in on your time paradox. First allow me to simplify the paradox if I may. Basically, you are looking for an irrefutable scientific definition of what time is. Well I think, if that is what you're looking for, then I have solved the paradox.

Time is the universe, simply put. If time and motion were to stop, the universe would cease to be. Time began when the universe began (scientifically speaking), and when the universe ends time will end as well. It must be then that the two are inextricable, and therefore synonymous. So I would say that time is the universe, they are the same thing. Perhaps that is why the Hopi did not have a word for time, because it was meaningless to describe, and irrelevant. However, I am interested to see what your conclusion is. Kudos