Author: Jaconaazar Souza Silva
Location: Recanto das Emas, Federal District, Brazil
Institution: Federal Institute of Brasília – Campus Recanto das Emas
ORCID: 0009-0006-5388-8105
Abstract
This philosophical essay explores the symbiotic relationship between time and consciousness. Drawing inspiration from the XChronos Project, it proposes that both phenomena require an observer to actualize their existence. By uniting orbital measurements, symbolic perception, and reflective metaphysics, the essay challenges the conventional notion of time as mere chronology, advocating instead for a cosmopoetic understanding of time as a living, witnessed journey.
1. Introduction: The Question That Echoes
“What is time when no one watches?”
“Would time even exist without a timeless consciousness witnessing it?”
These questions do not belong only to physics or metaphysics. They belong to the living experience of being aware.
If a tree falls and no ear listens, does it make a sound?
If a clock ticks but no mind apprehends it, does time actually move?
In this fragile interval between presence and absence, a new understanding of time and consciousness is born.
XChronos does not measure the hours — it measures the collapse of meaning into existence.
2. The Time Measured in Miles, Not Seconds
Forget the hands of the clock.
Forget the linear prison of seconds, minutes, and hours.
Think instead in cosmic journeys.
Think in orbital miles traveled with Earth (Gaia), Venus, and Mars:
- Universal Time: 13:27:01 (UTC+0)
- Local Time: 10:27:01 (UTC-3)
Miles traveled today:
- Earth (Gaia): 709,514 miles
- Venus: 503,429 miles
- Mars (Ares): 626,304 miles
Miles traveled this hour:
- Earth (Gaia): 30,575 miles
- Venus: 21,694 miles
- Mars (Ares): 26,989 miles
Average velocity per second:
- Earth (Gaia): 18.86 miles/sec
- Venus: 13.38 miles/sec
- Mars (Ares): 16.65 miles/sec
Your life so far (based on 11,688 days lived):
- Earth (Gaia): 19,045,034,976 miles
- Venus: 13,513,244,832 miles
- Mars (Ares): 16,811,504,928 miles
This measurement corresponds to 11,688 days of cosmic journey lived until the publication of this essay.
You are not standing still.
You have already traveled billions of miles — and you did not even need to move your feet.
Time is not something you walk through — you orbit through time.
3. Time and Consciousness: Twin Phenomena
Time and consciousness have something profound in common: neither exists without being observed.
- Time is a field of potential until a consciousness collapses it into a lived instant.
- Consciousness is a latent mirror until it reflects itself through time.
In the XChronos model, Chronons, Hexachronons, and Metachronons are not mere theoretical constructs — they are attempts to give symbolic language to this silent miracle:
Existence unfolds through presence. Presence unfolds through existence.
4. Beyond Data: Toward a Symbolic Internet
Our era has built a web based on clicks, metrics, and speed.
But the next era — the true Web 3.0 — will be semantic, symbolic, experiential.
Websites like XChronos.org, repositories like Zenodo, and archives like Internet Archive are no longer merely storing documents.
They are preserving the lived memory of consciousness navigating symbolic time.
Each published article, each upload, each digital crystallization is an act of remembering that time and being are inseparable.
5. Conclusion: Walking Through the Stars
You are not a number in a database.
You are a traveler moving through an invisible cosmos, carried along Gaia’s spin, Venus’s curves, and Ares’s longing.
When you stop to observe, when you stop to feel — you make time real.
Without your consciousness, time would remain a silent, sleeping sea.
It is the observer that wakes the world.
Thus, the final invitation of XChronos is simple, yet infinite:
- Walk consciously.
- Travel meaningfully.
- Be the time you wish to measure.
Keywords: symbolic time, consciousness, Chronons, Metachronons, XChronos, subjective temporality, ontological idealism, cosmic journeys
https://zenodo.org/records/15287560
10.5281/zenodo.15287560