[time-nuts] Beginner's time reference
john.foege at gmail.com
john.foege at gmail.com
Sat Dec 12 05:08:40 UTC 2009
Time does not just exist. That is correct. It is a human construct, like all other things. We define it, as all other things, and then make useful empirical comparative observations with it.
It sure is a handy, and sometimes addicting, construct however!
John Foege
KB1FSX
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-----Original Message-----
From: GandalfG8 at aol.com
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2009 18:47:02
To: <time-nuts at febo.com>
Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Beginner's time reference
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
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