The Locksmith

The Clocksmith.

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Isn't time illusion? 

I was reading about how a locksmith invented a clock, the first prototype. 

He knew instinctively  through own insight that 'time' has a conceptual existence and you can measure the same independently, define the 'unit time' according to your convenience.

Thereafter the Physicists learnt defining 'time', and how to make it relevant and fit into a frame as much exact as accurate mathematically as well.

This doesn't mean that 'time' is an entity or a quantity like other material quantities. 

So ultimately they defined a criteria like atomic time. This is of course the most practical one. 

Yet they had to set this clock according to the time that defines the year, -say astronomically. The rocket-science turned into, and developed into the science of missile or of the spacecraft. 

Quite so a locksmith turned into a clocksmith.

But who or what exactly might have invented the lock-down?

Like time, Isn't a lock-down, also an illusion?

This question occurred to me, when I felt there must be a facility that defines and measures the (movement of) time in a computer when it is not connected to A.C. Then a friend told me there is a small button-cell that maintains that time in the computer while the A.C. is off.

This is how they devised a criteria in terms of Giga-hertz, and accordingly in a computer, a 'second' is 'defined' / 'curated'.

Really time might be elusive, as it keeps on  deluding all the time, the very intelligent people also.

Could we now assert that the 'consciousness' (of time) exists independent of this 'time'?

Isn't the consciousness self-explicit? 

Could there possibly be a state when the same,  -the consciousness didn't exist nor exists, shall not exist?

Could we negate, refute, deny consciousness by any logic, experience or insight what-so-ever? 

Who knows?

Is not the  'knowing' itself synonymous of consciousness? 

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