); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Errors-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] RETRY Look, If time does not exist, then this group is gonna look a little sick. Let`s speak no more of this.......................................Don C.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Tim Shoppa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, July 29, 2007 2:50 AM Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Time may not exist > ); 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. > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.476 / Virus Database: 269.10.23/924 - Release Date: 7/28/2007 > 3:50 PM > > _______________________________________________ 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.
