ABSTRACT
When we consider "models of time," one question that immediately arises concerns that of time as an abstract dimension apart from other dimensions that define the world of real events. It seems difficult to meaningfully abstract "time" from activities such as conversations, speeches, dances, sports, and so on. To be sure, each of these things takes a certain amount of total time, and each has various embedded intervals of time. But on closer examination of such events, two things seem evident.
