Re: Three Time Puzzles



"Don Stockbauer" <donstockbauer@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Sep 29, 4:58 pm, The Ghost In The Machine
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In sci.physics.relativity, John Jones
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on Sat, 29 Sep 2007 15:18:41 -0700
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If it takes forty minutes to bake a cake, how long is forty minutes?

22,062,316,248,000 vibrations of a certain transition of a Cs-133 atom
in free fall.



There is no separation in time between the egg and the chicken. The
only separation is the events we push between them!

Is this a riddle or an observation? In any event, the breakage of
the egg shell is a good separator.



If the future is always in front, why is it always the last to arrive?

Because we approach it from the wrong direction. :-)

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Change = rate * time

Time is change occurring at a rate.

No change, no time.

Unless the rate is zero. :-)


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