The truth of this fact comes home when we take notice of the lack, among non-human creatures, of the faculty of conscious awareness of time, and of gauging it. Consequently non-humans do not cognise Time, the fourth dimension, the way man cognises time. That is why, and how, they fail to react to time, in contrast to man's conscious and deliberate response to change in the space around. And therefore, the definition of Time, enunciated at the start, is a total concept, unlike the presently held concepts of Time. The total concept is further augmented by probing the nature of the other two associated components.
Space is a multidimensional infinity.
And Matter is the end-product of concretisation of primal energy in space. Thus all the three, seemingly separate elements, are indeed the inextricably integrated stuff of human experience. SELF-experience in the dreamless, deep sleep state of all creatures, pointed to in philosophy. In the total concept, science, philosophy and all objective knowledge converge and reach their common destination of ultimate, singular truth - reality, ubiquitous, timeless. Why the prevailing concepts of time fail to arrive at the Truth.