We are the result of processes much more complicated than the small aspects of our lives and societies over… — Lee Smolin

Time is described only in terms of change in the network of relationships that describes space.

There is no time apart from change. There is no such thing as a clock outside the network of changing relationships. ...one can only compare how fast one thing is happening with the rate of some other process.

There are unfortunately not a few good professional physicists who still think about the world as if space and time had an absolute meaning.