); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Errors-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I think what is proposed is that time, while real, would not be a fundamental dimension of the universe, it would be a dimension of convenience, due to our lack of understanding of the underlying principles.
It is interesting considering that a lot of people in the last half century or so have tried to do the opposite: relate everything to time simply because time is what we can measure most accurately, at least at the macro scale. I am an engineer, so this makes no difference to me, but I find it fascinating. Maybe I should have been a physicist... Didier -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, July 28, 2007 3:21 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Time may not exist In a message dated 28/07/2007 05:49:07 GMT Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Before this subject deteriorates into what trial lawyers and politicians excel at (twisting words to obscure the truth), consider what happens if time does not exist. Velocity is distance moved per unit of time, or distance is velocity times time. If time does not exist, then nothing moves. Reproduction becomes impossible. Even thought becomes impossible because neurons fire depending on the pulse rate at synapses. Not to mention communication and other things that are frequency sensitive, including light and radiant heat. And then there's the matter of Earth rotating in several ways. Since all of these things do exist, time exists. It is what goes on inside the brains of quantum physicists that leads them to make rash statements about things they cannot measure. As I recall, the derivation of the Planck length seemed suspect. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
