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Select periodic structures is right. Atomic clocks are just a more precise way of measuring motion and have nothing whatever to do with time as we measure it. Years, months & days have no real relationship with each other either. The earth moving around the sun, the moon orbiting the earth, the earth rotating on its axis have no possibility of being synchronized as you know.Planets need not apply
time is our primary measure of distance or space. How big is the Milky Way galaxy? Our answer: x light years or parsecs. Little else would make practical sense. Yes, ultimately it is just imposing our select periodic structures upon nature. But other animals do that kind of thing too.
If for example we were on a space hotel in geosynchronous orbit over the equator we could witness a continuous sunrise, midday or sunset and then the time as measured on our clocks would cease to have much relevance. Whereas Time a chronological progression does not appear to exist at all. Another way of looking at is that the dinosaurs are all around us still but are there in a form that we don't perceive of as creatures and instead we see as dust. There is only motion devoid of direction?