On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 8:02 AM, Levi Pearson <[email protected]> wrote: > In any case, time doesn't become "real" through aggregate measurement > in the same way that temperature does.
“Time may be an approximate concept that emerges at large scales—a bit like the concept of ‘surface of the water,’ which makes sense macroscopically but which loses a precise sense at the level of the atoms.” - Carlo Rovelli, a physicist at the University of the Mediterranean in Marseille, France, from this article: http://discovermagazine.com/2007/jun/in-no-time Got the metaphor wrong but it'd been a while since I read the article. -Dan /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
