Re: Is time a measurement?(actually in search of edification)

From: Leonard Pardin (leoppard_at_MailAndNews.com)
Date: 07/13/04 

Date: 12 Jul 2004 19:42:33 -0700

"Dirk Van de moortel" <dirkvandemoortel@ThankS-NO-SperM.hotmail.com> wrote in message news:<HhwIc.183252$k15.8682555@phobos.telenet-ops.be>...
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> > | My thanks to all that may respond,
> > | Brandon DuPree
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> > Ok, let's see what we know, as scientists,
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> You, a scientist?
> HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
> http://users.pandora.be/vdmoortel/dirk/Physics/ImmortalFumbles.html
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> Dirk Vdm

    Well, Androcles saw through the Einstein myth. So he's one up on
many recognized scientists holding high positions today. Androcles's
analysis of the concept of time is right on. Time is simply a
measurement, just like inches and miles. A clock is simply a
measuring instrument, like a ruler. The ruler measures length; a clock
measures duration. You can't have negative length of a real object,
and you can't have negative duration of a real event.

   If we all agree on a standard timepiece, a standard sequence of
small events to measure against, then we all know what we mean when we
speak of a certain length or a certain amount of time. The problem
starts when someone suggests that when some clocks change their
oscillations time itself is changing. That suggests that "time" is
something other than a simple measurement of duration. Time becomes
something like a physical object that can change its shape. It
becomes even more nonsensical when someone connects the concept of
empty space that curves with a constantly changing, nonstandard, and
undefined thing called time.

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