[time-nuts] Beginner's time reference

[Roy Phillips]

Give it to them Nigel . . . . .

Roy


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From: <GandalfG8 at aol.com>
Sent: Friday, December 11, 2009 11:47 PM
To: <time-nuts at febo.com>
Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Beginner's time reference

>
> In a message dated 11/12/2009 21:47:28 GMT Standard Time,
> michael.cook at wanadoo.fr writes:
>
> For me  time just exists. What time nuts do is to try  and measure and
> characterise it.
>
>
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> Unfortunately, that's not really the way it is.
>
> Time nuts do not and cannot measure time itself because time as an 
> absolute
> entity just doesn't exist.
>
> We can measure the length of the intervals between events, time  intervals
> if you choose to call them that, but nobody has ever demonstrated the
> existence of time itself as a measurable quantity.
>
> And just in case anyone wishes to shout me down on this, as happened when 
> I
> dared to suggest the same some time ago, I have since been heartened to
> read in  Walter Isaacson's excellent biography that a certain Mr Einstein
> arrived at the  same conclusion.
>
> We could of course both be wrong, but at least I'll be wrong in good
> company:-)
>
> regards
>
> Nigel
> GM8PZR
>
>
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