January 25th 07, 05:26 PM
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Antennas led astray
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Cecil Moore wrote:
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Cecil Moore wrote:
What does it mean when someone says the age of the universe
is 12.5 billion years?
Exactly what most people think it means.
Seems like an argumentum ad populum. If we lived
near a black hole, our seconds could be 10^6 times
longer than they are now. What would most people
think then?
Since that would change the defined conditions for the unit of time,
the number would probably change.
But, since we couldn't live that close to a black hole, the point is
moot.
Most of the points in theorectical physics are moot.
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