A central difficulty in both the philosophy of time and contemporary physics is that time is frequently reduced either to an external measurable parameter or to a derivative feature of conscious processing. In the first reduction, time becomes a coordinate of ordering, duration, and synchronization. In the second, the lived reality of the present, the directional character of temporal flow, and the apparent openness of the future are treated as secondary constructions imposed by cognition upon an otherwise tenseless structure. Neither reduction is sufficient. The first preserves formal order but loses lived temporality. The second preserves experience but weakens ontology. A more adequate account must explain how measured time and lived time can both be real without collapsing one into the other. The temporal multivector framework addresses this problem by treating temporality as internally differentiated. Time is not exhausted by a single homogeneous axis. Rather, temporal reality is composed of several irreducible but interacting temporal modes. These modes are represented here by five temporal axes:T1 = Primary Time AxisT2 = Cyclic Time AxisT3 = Quantum Time AxisT4 = Coherence Time AxisT5 = Resonance Time Axis The purpose of this subsection is not to replace standard physical time, but to situate it within a broader temporal ontology. In this broader ontology, measured succession is one valid temporal function among others rather than the sole form of temporality.
Philip Lilien (Sun,) studied this question.