Eternalism (philosophy of Time) - Problems With The Flow of Time - Rate of Flow

Rate of Flow

The concept of "time passing" can be considered to be internally inconsistent, by asking "how much time goes by in an hour?" The question, "how fast does time pass" seems to have no satisfactory answer, in which answers such as "a second per second" would be, as some would argue, trivial and thus false. In addition, even if we do accept the above answer, then the statement "a second per second" can be expressed as a fraction which is always equal to 'one'. But this 'one' has no meaning beyond being a number and is thus also the wrong kind of answer. Therefore, the argument goes, the passage of time is nonsensical.

There is a major problem though in that the question of time is no different from space. We can similarly ask, "how much space is contained in a meter?" — and face a similar objection.