Mystery word for the TARDIGRADE contest

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(This is for the TARDIGRADE contest. CILovF )

I am a fundamental force of the known universe. I make mountains grow and fall, turn beasts and human beings into adults and then to dust, civilizations rise and fall in the blink of an eye to me and can only be told by a device.

What am I?

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