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Perfect.

Why?

If effects from causes occurred immediately, versus with a distinct delay, everything would occur at once (or loop forever, that's a bug).

Hence, because we can observe that things happen "in sequence", there is a "propagation delay". That's what time is: "Time: the process whereby effects occur after causes, in a step by step manner".



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