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- From: bhoughto@sedona.intel.com (Blair P. Houghton)
- Newsgroups: sci.physics
- Subject: Re: Some physics questions
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- Date: 9 Nov 92 01:26:32 GMT
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- In article <1dk21rINN5e6@iskut.ucs.ubc.ca> ramsay@unixg.ubc.ca (Keith Ramsay) writes:
- >I would agree that it is conceivable
- >that one would have two measures of time, neither one with a greater
- >claim to being "time", although it seems unlikely.
-
- We already have at least two.
-
- There is subjective time, in which we sense the flow of
- events around us. Time flies when we're having fun, and
- crawls at the oddest of times.
-
- There is objective time, in which we compare the flow of
- events in a machine with the flow of events around us.
-
- One can add relativistic time and sidereal time, off the
- top of one's head (this fourth is too closely related to
- 4/4 time for me to use that as a fifth).
-
- These are mere implications of nuances in the definition of
- time. I would say to your inspiration that he should first
- adequately define the obvious sort of time before implying that
- there is another that fits all of our conventional versions.
-
- --Blair
- "Who said 'science is truth?'
- Where is his proof?"
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