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perfectly subjective, while it is a given that it is in no sense a product of reality. If this were the case, we would not need cesium 133 because of its intrinsic properties in atomic clocks. The radiation of microwaves, the frequency of which is adjusted to induce the chosen atomic transi- tion, takes place in the Ramsay chamber that constitutes part of this clock. In addition, a bombardment of photons enters to cool off and thus to slow the flow of cesium 133 particles in order to regulate the true clock, which is made up of a quartz crystal that drives the microwave generator. This quartz crystal supports the process. So time is by definition linked to a constant (transition of the hyperfine level) and a frequency that is permanently adjusted to conform with the arbi- trary convention man applies to locate himself in time. Seconds are the product of a human, non-conditional postulate. In fact the purpose is subjective because artificial, and thus unnatural. A contrario, the super- natural is natural, i.e., not artificial, or even beyond the mental. On the other hand, psychological time originated from a perception that seems subjective in every sense, but that is direct information, without a go-between, like the signified object being the apple is to our senses. This object-apple and this object-time are in fact pristine infor- mation, by any interpretation. They are quite simply reality, even if this reality relies on the perceiver. We understand that the term subjective must be restricted to the meaning of the word personal (consciousness) instead of the meaning of imaginary (non-existence). Therefore, reality is personal, as is truth. On the other hand, interpreting the latter is not equal to the truth. Interpretations have occasionally led to impasses. According to Etienne Klein,* subjective time “elaborates a type of coexistence amidst the present, the immediate past and the imminent future. It unites what physical time continually separates, it retains what the latter carries away, includes what it excludes, preserves what it eliminates...Strictly speaking there would be no melody without this alliance in the heart of consciousness. By focusing on all their schematic representations, physicists may have forgotten some of the fundamental properties of time. The monotonous time of physicists, made up of independent, identical and repeated ticks, might well be but a very poor idealization of our lifetime and obviously more tedious than an algebraic variable.” We quickly see that reality is simply how it is being perceived, with- out a detour, without a go-between, without excuses. Psychological time is objective time, because it is the true object-time. It varies, because the consciousness that perceives time is informed of when it is, just as we are informed of where we are. We could summarize the situation by saying 80 The Science of Extraterrestrials: UFOs Explained at Last * Eric Julien