The origin of standard clock time in a spiral in NLC

Gravity is defined a linearity.  There is little opportunity for overlap in linear spirals, none if they travel in the same direction.   Hence, space shows little interaction.
Once you reach secondary, tertiary and quartenary spirals (ct2, 3 and 4 and those higher states we observe) you begin to see more opportunity for overlap as you have spirals at angles to other spirals. It is to be recounted here that the spiral algorithm (given in the book, but readily available anywhere where algorithms are sold) is only the best model so far.  Worse still, the interaction between curved and linear spirals has not been selected with any permanence but that is a different chapter.
We're talking about the strange origin of time here.  By time I'm referring to standard clock time, what you see on your watch and what Einstein mistakenly said we each had our own.  It is something which we all know (see the book) before NLC was convertible to length (hence space-time) but whose origin (time's origin) as a reference point was unknown until NLC.  But where's the reference point.
Why start with the interaction of secondary spirals?  Herein lies the most elegant of explanations of time imaginable.  Up till now, it has been said, somewhat incorrectly, that standard clock time (SCT) only starts when you have ct4.  This is not misleading, because we as ct4 creatures have sct.
The number of overlaps decrease as we accelerate reducing the number of overlaps as various spirals "straighten out".  But where is the reference point and what does this have to do with gravity?
One answer is that the reference point is ct5.  Yes, this would mean that in the 4th collision of the primary spirals sct would not exist even though matter would be everywhere because there would be no point of reference.  The gravitational web that holds the universe together in this scenario becomes the holder of the clock, but only with ct5 type spirals which have the point of reference.  And as we accelerate from ct4 to ct3 states (as we reduce the number of simultaneous coordinate changes from 4 to 3) the reference point is lost and there is no time even though the length of the spirals which sct represents continues.
'nuf said'?