On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 12:46 PM, Edgar L. Owen <[email protected]> wrote:
> All events without exception happen in the present moment. > An event is specified by a unique time and space, a asteroid crashing into Chicxulub 66 million years ago was an event, but it did not happen in the present moment. > Of course those events can happen with different clock times according to > relativistic conditions in different frames, > If time isn't what clocks measure then what do clocks measure? And what is time? > but they always happen in the present moment. > OK, but then "the present moment" is about as far from being unique as you can get, and is purely subjective too, but then everybody knew that long before Einstein. > lt is very strange to me how no one seems to understand what I'm even > saying with respect to two kinds of time, > Count me as one of their number, I don't understand what you're talking about either, nor do I understand how postulating a new type of time helps us understand more about how the world works. John K Clark -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
