The absolute metronome

In standard relativity, following Minkowski, time is a fourth geometric dimension that can be bent, stretched, and traveled through. RSI rejects this. In RSI, time is not a place or a container. It is strictly a measurement of mechanical fatigue.

Because the Eternal Consonance is a physical, continuous fluid, it has an objective frame rate. The limit of its elasticity sets a constant pulse at the Planck frequency, about 10⁴³ Hz. This is the absolute metronome of reality. The theory notes that using hertz is not circular. A second is only a human benchmark: 9,192,631,770 vibrations of a cesium-133 atom. The Planck frequency is therefore a gear ratio between the universal drive shaft and a local atomic gear.

What we feel as time passing is the friction of matter. Each matter-knot stays synchronized with the background pulse through the 137-Escapement. Clocks, heartbeats, and decaying muons all record that pulse: large structures as gradual wear, single knots as decay events that come with a fixed chance on every beat.