From: John Clark (jonkc@worldnet.att.net)
Date: Sun Dec 19 1999 - 09:19:24 MST
Menno Rubingh <rubingh@delftnet.nl> On December 19, 1999 Wrote:
> I think that a honest, rational physicist already *knows* that time is a fiction.
Nonsense. Time is a real as left and right or back and forth or up and down.
>time is a mathematical *abstraction*: it is a concept that lives only on our mind.
"Now" lives only in our minds, that is, just as one point in space is not fundamentally
different from all the other points, one instance of "Now" is not fundamentally different
from all the other instances of "Now". But that certainly doesn't mean that space or
time do not exist. And when I say ONLY in our minds I don't want to give the impression
that means it's not important or not real.
>I *INVENT* abstract, mathematical quantities like time and position
>to make it easier for me to reason about & to make sense of the things
> I "think" I see.
No. Time and position don't make it easier to think, they make it possible to think,
therefore debating whether they are invented or discovered becomes moot.
>I personally have never directly experienced time (let alone Time).
I don't want to be rude but I really must say it, BALONEY!
John K Clark jonkc@att.net
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