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- From: brian@quake.sylmar.ca.us (Brian K. Yoder)
- Subject: Re: TIME HAS INERTIA - BASS JEALOUS AND INSECURE-ABIAN VALIDATED
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- References: <1992Dec12.195654.7419@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> <12-12-92> <abian.724200923@pv343f.vincent.iastate.edu>
- Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 23:33:03 GMT
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- I think that before anyone even addresses this incredible claim (that "Time
- Has Inertia") they have to explain how something which is not an entity (time)
- can have properties. Any definition of time I can think of (even ones I
- very much disagree with) define time as something other than an entity.
- If you claim that your definition of time is something new, that it IS an
- entity, then you need to have some means by which to prove this. What do you
- think would constitute evidence of this amazing claim?
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- A similar problem exists for physicists who consider light to be a wave (or
- a wave and something else too). Waving is something an entity does, not a
- thing in itself. There can no more be a wave traveling through space than
- there can be a room with some "jumping" going on outside of any entities which
- are doing the jumping.
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- I think these kinds of problems both arise from physicists getting too tied up
- with their equations to remember that they apply to things in the real world.
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- --Brian
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