You're right about the equidistance. But we can't measure that oscillation, or anything else that takes place in the dimension of time, without moving through i

You're right about the equidistance. But we can't measure that oscillation, or anything else that takes place in the dimension of time, without moving through it ourselves. That's what I was getting at with the yardstick analogy: we can plop a yardstick down and look at the number representing the length. We don't need to actually position ourselves at point 0 and move ourselves to point N. That's not the case with time – when we take a measurement, we must start at point 0 and actually move along the time dimension to the point at which the measurement stops. (As a teacher it's always so fun seeing how an example gets interpreted entirely reasonably in way other than you intended.)