Time Doesn’t Slow Down, Only the World’s Processes Do

This paper argues that time is not a fundamental feature of the world but a human-made measurement convention. What we call “time dilation” is in fact the slowing of physical processes under gravity, while clocks merely follow definitions we impose. By reframing time as the rate of change rather than an independent entity, the paper proposes a new conceptual hierarchy for physics and reinterprets spacetime as a mathematical model rather than an ontological structure.