How well do we even understand time?

We are these mobile organisms, so our consciousness functions as a sequence of perceptions, in order to navigate. Consequently our concept of time is the point of the present, moving past to future. Physics models it as measures of duration.

The evident reality though, is that change is turning future to past. Tomorrow becomes yesterday, because the earth turns. Potential>actual>residual. Duration is the present, as the events unfold.

There isn't any literal dimension of time, because the past is consumed by the present, to inform and drive it. Causality and conservation of energy. Cause becomes effect.

So energy is "conserved," because it is the present, creating time, as well as temperature, pressure, color and sound. Time is frequency, events are amplitude.

As present, the energy goes past to future, while the patterns it generates go future to past. Energy drives the wave, while the fluctuations rise and fall.

Consciousness also goes past to future, while the perceptions, emotions and thoughts giving it form and structure go future to past. Though it's the digestive, respiratory and circulatory systems processing the energy, feeding the flame, while the central nervous system sorts the information.

Different clocks can run at different rates simply because they are separate actions. Think metabolism.

That society is about using the same mental tools, following the same rules, using the same measures, it might seem like there is some universal, Newtonian flow of time, but it's rabbit time, turtle time, etc. and the turtle is still plodding along, long after the rabbit has died, so slowing down has its advantages.