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On Mon, 02 May 2005 00:34:03 -0500, Cecil Moore
wrote: Mike Coslo wrote: Time is the description of the interval between happenings. Do all things happen concurrently? I agree that time is the description of the interval between happenings. What I don't accept is that time is some real dimension existing completely independent of human concepts. Before man emerged, living organisms got by on changes alone with no reference to time. That's hard to prove one way or the other. I don't recall clocks being part of the fossil record. :-) Sure there were -- growth ridges on clams, tree rings, etc. :-) |
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Cecil Moore wrote: I don't recall clocks being part of the fossil record. :-) Sure there were -- growth ridges on clams, tree rings, etc. :-) Those are merely reflections of changes in the amount of sunlight. They would cease to exist if the sun changed and went dark. -- 73, Cecil http://www.qsl.net/w5dxp ----== Posted via Newsfeeds.Com - Unlimited-Uncensored-Secure Usenet News==---- http://www.newsfeeds.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! 120,000+ Newsgroups ----= East and West-Coast Server Farms - Total Privacy via Encryption =---- |
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Are humans the only beings that "create" time?
I was out for my lunchtime jog today, around the golf course. I was watching birds take off and land in the breezy conditions. It was interesting to watch the subtle adjustments they would make, especially when coming in to land. You could see them adjusting their wings in several ways to send themselves to where they wanted to land. They would compensate for wind gusts (and lack of wind). Point is, I cannot come up with any way in which they can cope with the randomness of the wind and land in the palce they desire without having an acute sense of time. They obviously are not counting off seconds or whatever. But they seem to land where they want to, and must be predicting it by their flight adjustments. - Mike KB3EIA - |
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On Thu, 05 May 2005 07:30:21 -0500, Cecil Moore
wrote: wrote: Cecil Moore wrote: I don't recall clocks being part of the fossil record. :-) Sure there were -- growth ridges on clams, tree rings, etc. :-) Those are merely reflections of changes in the amount of sunlight. They would cease to exist if the sun changed and went dark. As, I suspect, would the organisms involved, no? |
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