Hi All, 5-23-09 Time, like truth, is subjective; it is a feeling about something. In terms of natural selection, it is to our advantage to be able to predict what is going to happen; and time is a series of events, heart beats or sunrises, that lets us keep track of things.
Jack Smith Jones Beene wrote: > > ----- Original Message ---- > > > From: Mauro Lacy > > > Only velocity exists, physically. From then on, time is derived as t=v/s. > > That is, in physics time is no more than a mathematical construct. I > > meant: t=s/v > > Which comes first - the chicken or the egg? > > Why not say that only time and space exist, physically, and that velocity is > derived therefrom ? > > After all, there are ways to measure time independently of velocity, but no > way to measure velocity independently of time.
