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... OK,go look at your cute clocks and your cute wris****ches and on tv and everywhere else y'all see ''Time'',,,, keep on believing in y'allselfs.''Time'' does not exist,NO such thing. Of course it exists. It is the 4th dimension. Example: when you make plans to meet someone - say for lunch - how many coordinates do you give? You say "meet me at Harry's diner at main and 3rd, at 1:00 o'clock". You give 4 coordinates - 3 physical and one of time. Length, width, height, duration. There are (at least) 4 dimensions. Saying WHERE something exists is meaningless without saying WHEN it exists. Did Harry's diner exist at 3rd and Main 1 year ago? A million years ago? Clocks are just the measuring stick. Just as physical dimensions exist independently of feet, meters, and light-years, time exists independently of what we use to measure it. Clocks, inches, sundials, kilometers, decaying atoms, light-years, quartz vibrations, the movement of Earth around the Sun etc. are all just convenient measuring tools. They all give reference points, so we can say things like "The restaurant is a mile north of here" or "I'll be at the restaurant in an hour". The "mile" has no real existence, it's just an agreed upon definition of a length of distance. Similarly, the "hour" has no real existence, it's just an agreed upon definition of a length of time. All of the measuring tools and terms we use to define the 4 dimensions are purely arbitrary. What they are measuring, however, is very real. The concepts of before, now and after are as real and universal as up, down, left, right, forward and backward. Mike |
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