); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Errors-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm surprised that no one has come forth with the apposite quote from the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: "Time is an illusion. Lunchtime, doubly so."
John ---- Didier Juges said the following on 07/28/2007 09:29 AM: > ); 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. > > _______________________________________________ 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.
