); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Errors-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Didier Juges" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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...
I was a physicist. After hearing way too many years about super-string theory, coordinate-free notation, etc. I quit, and now my day job consists of building/maintaining a supervisory control system that hurtles metal subway trains 450 to 600 feet long from a stop to 60 MPH and back again every minute or two, 40000 times a day. To say that "I quit" is one interpretation, an equally valid interpretation would be that I completely flamed out in my first post-doc :-). I am so much happier now that I get to use coordinates again :-). It is increasingly frustrating that the several thousand clocks around the railroad are never synchronized, though! Tim. _______________________________________________ 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.
