Re: Is 'time' time or is it not.
- From: Igor Khavkine <igor.kh@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2005 22:30:02 +0000 (UTC)
On 2005-08-31, Christopher Fortin <chris@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 04:27:23 +0000 (UTC), Marcel LeBel
> <lebel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, wrote:
>>
>> 3- Rate: Time passes at a certain pace or rate. The passage of time
>> being a dynamical concept, it is required that it passes at a certain rate.
>
> Please forgive a question I've wondered about, but what units would
> be used to measure this rate? Seconds/second seams redundant.
Something like that, i.e. dimensionless. Time dilations and contractions
can be measured relative to other observers (other clocks), cf. the Twin
Paradox.
Igor
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