Re: A puzzle

From: AllYou! (idaman_at_conversent.net)
Date: 10/19/04 

Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 09:17:22 -0400

"Androcles" <dummy@dummy.net> wrote in message
news:1ZQbd.89959$BI5.67766@fe2.news.blueyonder.co.uk...
>
> "sal" <pragmatist@nospam.org> wrote in message
> news:pan.2004.10.15.11.53.19.740445@nospam.org...
> > On Fri, 15 Oct 2004 07:28:54 -0400, AllYou! wrote:
> >

> >> And what's a clock? Motion. And why does motion define time?
Because
> >> there's no other way to do it.
>
> Hmm... It seems I misjudged "AllYou!" based on a minor disagreement.
> I should rectify that. I can't agree that time is a clock, though. Time
> "passes"
> whether not we count it.

Time only passes in the sense that particles move. Motion involves distance
and velocity which are very real, and when we plow those those an algorithm,
we get time. Time is a concept only.

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