[time-nuts] Beginner's time reference

[GandalfG8 at aol.com]

In a message dated 11/12/2009 21:47:28 GMT Standard Time,  
michael.cook at wanadoo.fr writes:

For me  time just exists. What time nuts do is to try  and measure and  
characterise it.


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Unfortunately, that's not really the way it is.
 
Time nuts do not and cannot measure time itself because time as an absolute 
 entity just doesn't exist.
 
We can measure the length of the intervals between events, time  intervals 
if you choose to call them that, but nobody has ever demonstrated the  
existence of time itself as a measurable quantity.
 
And just in case anyone wishes to shout me down on this, as happened when I 
 dared to suggest the same some time ago, I have since been heartened to 
read in  Walter Isaacson's excellent biography that a certain Mr Einstein 
arrived at the  same conclusion.
 
We could of course both be wrong, but at least I'll be wrong in good  
company:-)
 
regards
 
Nigel
GM8PZR