); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Errors-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] RETRY Completely agree with Didier and Tim.
There's another observation about time: Events are spaced in time. If there is no time, then everything happens at once. Perhaps our Big Bang came from another universe running out of time (what a concept). Bill Hawkins -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tim Shoppa Sent: Saturday, July 28, 2007 9:50 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Time may not exist "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. _______________________________________________ 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.
