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

tedkord_at_excite.com
Date: 01/02/05 

Date: 1 Jan 2005 21:24:28 -0800

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.

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