Time is measured by clocks. While all clocks to not measure time, directly, but rather time in the context of space; space-time. The second hand on the analog wrist watch, defines one second of time as the displace of the second hand in space, one notch. Digital clocks measure time by the change in a given space of the display. The day, month and year is defined as the relative movement of the earth and the sun, moon, sun, respectively, in space. Clocks do not not measure pure time, but time as a function of space. This leads to confusion in terms of defining time all by itself. If you use the wrong tool to measure an effect, like a meter stick to measure body mass, then this leads to a diversity of theory and opinions. It becomes less about truth and more about practical gimmicks.
Since the criteria of. "before time", is before the appearance of space-time, which the clock is designed to measure; time as a function of space, before time or before clock time, would be pure time, that is not dependent on space. Clocks cannot measure this form of time, since it enters the realm of consciousness. In your head you can visualize movement in space, while not moving.
Let me give an example. Sometimes I like to watch TV police dramas, where each week the actors solve complex crimes in one hour. This is not in touch with space-time, in the sense that real crime and police, also routinely solve crimes in minutes. However, in the duration of time allowed for that TV program, crime are solved, in one hour, each week, like clockwork. On one hand we can measure the clock time of the TV drama, and it repeats as an hour. But the content and the actions do not seem possible in terms of space-time, in that allotted time. However, the time potential for the entire drama, always finishes in one hour. The drama is using more like pure time not attached to the limits of space, like we have in space-time. However, it does propagate in time and finishes in one hour in terms of the magic world of TV.
If we look at the contract between evolution and creation, evolution takes a billion years in space-time. While Creation is similar to the TV drama doing the same things in 6 days. Like the TV drama, where all main the actors have the intuitive and rational skills of Sherlock Holmes. and can solve crime faster, Creation has an entity; God, that planned the drama before setting it in motion, so it fits the allotted time. Pure time is attached to consciousness, where we can plan in advance, to make things happen, elsewhere, faster and reach fruition; time potential.
Entropy appears to be connected to time potential. We know that entropy has to increase, but we do not know for certain where in space this may occur next. Entropy has all the attributes of potential in time, with an uncertainty in space. Clocks are of no use in making predictions. We know there is a potential in time for someone to win the lottery, but the place in space, is far more uncertain. That analysis and conclusion has a connection to separated time.
I do not like statistics, when in comes to modeling events in space-time, since reason is more appropriated. Reason requires the assumption that space and time are tethered. Adding extra time potential to space-time, to get uncertainty in space, adds too much imaginary. However, this would be appropriate, as we go down into the quantum state, but less so at the macro-states.
