age · temporal
Ask PrometheusAge (noun) means: the time since a thing began. It emerges from time, change, since: time starts when a thing began and persists through change, marked by the duration from that point to now. In the EmergenceLexicon it sits at computed level 3, chaining down to the four foundations (space, time, energy, pattern).
Examples
- The Sun has burned for 4.6 billion years, measured from the condensation of the solar nebula. astronomy
- The Treaty of Waitangi, signed in 1840, marks the legal foundation of modern New Zealand. institutions
- Proxima Centauri b’s atmosphere may have eroded over 4.8 billion years due to stellar flares. planetary science
Emergence
through: time starts when a thing began and persists through change, marked by the duration from that point to now
- elapsed duration
- temporal continuity
- origin-point reference
Chain to foundations
full chain as text (10 steps)
Neighborhood
Concepts that depend on this one above; what it is built from below.
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Relations
| abstracts | time.dimension | age abstracts time |
| is-a | example.temporal | age is a kind of temporal example |