Re: Division by Zero in Nature, and Decomposition of Time.

From: Bill Hobba (bhobba_at_rubbish.net.au)
Date: 01/02/05 

Date: Sun, 02 Jan 2005 09:24:10 GMT

"Lefty" <Ye@h.Right> wrote in message
news:ZxNBd.60051$k25.18449@attbi_s53...
>
> <tedkord@excite.com> wrote in message
> news:1104643468.779392.221180@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com...
> > snip
> > > Well, consider linear travel using gasoline in miles per gallon. You
> > are
> > > calculating Miles/Gallons. If you have zero gallons of gas, your car
> > may
> > > exist but your gas mileage is not defined.
> > >
> > > You have the same situation with time. If you cant measure it or
> > observe it
> > > because the largest scale motions in the universe are nearly zero
> > relative
> > > to us, then you still have a universe but time in undefined.
> > Spacetime
> > > collapses to 3D "relative to an observer" here on Earth.
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> > This is where the previously stated idea of using appropriate units
> > comes into play. We measure in miles per gallon. Maybe if we measured
> > in nanometers per cubic meter, our cars would simply cease to exist?
> >
> > My car gets 4.828X10^13nm/0.003785m^3. There, I said it. I hope it's
> > still out in my driveway, and didn't just vanish in a puff of logic.
> >
>
>
> Well, you have to look at the difference between various ratios. Days and
> years are not so far apart. minutes and seconds are not so far apart.
Hours
> and weeks are further apart, but still relatively close.

Relative to what - the vacuum between your ears?

Bill

>
> Seconds and years are pretty far apart, but well within the rang of being
> easy for the average person to percieve the difference.
>
> But when 1 second is compared to something like 1*10^20 seconds, I think
> that the differences are getting pretty large, and 1*10^ -20 is getting
> pretty close to zero, at least the average person would probably percieve
it
> as such.
>
> Changing units because it makes calculation "more convenient" introduces
> human bias.

Relevant Pages