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Just Your Imagination?

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Posted by Thomas on October 22, 2001 16:31:35 UTC

If time is defined in a way that can't be measured then it only exists in your imagination. While it's possible to say that clocks do not measure time the same can be said about rulers and space. Do you have a problem with those as well?

I always understood that clocks measure time because they define it. Isn't that how any measurement works, by choosing an arbitrary standard and making comparisons to it? Of course our standard for time is not perfect as it depends on relative motion, but as long as we understand how motion affects our measurement of time I see nothing wrong with it. Until we come up with a better way of measuring it, the current definition of time is as good as any other, possibly even better than most. What can we achieve by doing away with it when we have nothing better to offer other than a gut feeling which is most likely mistaken?

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I think you have missed the converstation. - doctordick - October 22, 2001 - 18:24 UTC
- Thom didn't miss anything.. - bruce - October 22, 2001 - 19:56 UTC
  - I love confident people! - doctordick - October 22, 2001 - 20:09 UTC
    - Why don't you explain yourself better? - thom_cl - October 22, 2001 - 20:44 UTC
      - Sorry about that! - doctordick - October 23, 2001 - 15:07 UTC
        
        From a complete idiot to another - thom_cl - October 23, 2001 - 16:19 UTC
        
        ha ha ha - thom_cl - October 23, 2001 - 16:47 UTC
        
        Well, the man can read! - doctordick - October 23, 2001 - 17:21 UTC
        
        Are you for real? - thom_cl - October 23, 2001 - 19:01 UTC
        
        He is just Kantian(NT) - yanniru - October 24, 2001 - 15:15 UTC
        
        He might well be - thom_cl - October 24, 2001 - 15:48 UTC
        
        "God himself" ? - luis_hamburgh - October 24, 2001 - 23:06 UTC
        
        God IS a man - thom_cl - October 25, 2001 - 13:37 UTC
        
        God is a man? - harvey1 - October 25, 2001 - 15:21 UTC
        
        Genesis I - thom_cl - October 25, 2001 - 16:19 UTC
        
        Thus such God can not exist, right? - alexander - October 26, 2001 - 17:37 UTC
        
        Man-Like God? - terry - November 15, 2001 - 11:17 UTC
        
        How about making a deal? - harvey1 - October 25, 2001 - 16:40 UTC
        
        The issue of science has already been proven correct - alexander - October 26, 2001 - 17:59 UTC
        
        Hmm... - harvey1 - October 26, 2001 - 19:29 UTC
        
        Science has its drawbacks - yanniru - October 26, 2001 - 20:58 UTC
        
        Pneumonia from hospital? How come? - alexander - November 5, 2001 - 11:19 UTC
        
        To Harvey. - alexander - November 5, 2001 - 11:34 UTC

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