Posted on 04/25/2022 7:54:20 AM PDT by Red Badger
Okay, I’m going to peruse this &, see if I comprehend.
Sure it is. I work in billionths of a second every day. That can be divided into trillionths and even quadrillionths or whatever divisor you choose.......................
Do you bill by the pico second or nano second?
Shirley McClain does it often
Femtosecond................. and sometimes Attosecond...............
So, we can finally get rid of Daylight Savings Time?
Yes, it’s unnecessary........................
Nope. Eventually time ends being divisible because everything stops, including electrons. It becomes nothing.
Change is not identical to time. Time is a mathematical structure invented to categorize change.
What ever.
What is your rate?
Is time analog or digital?
If you have to ask...........................
“Time is a mathematical structure invented to categorize change.”
I’ll agree that the language, terms, units and tools we use to measure time are mathematical structures invented to categorize change.
We started out by dividing known astronomical cycles of change into units of time. Earth’s orbit around the sun, earth’s rotation (the sun’s position in the sky).
Then we refined these units by inventing machines that measured time (change) in smaller increments - hourglasses, mechanical clocks, electrical clocks, digital clocks.
Note that in all of these, something is changing: the sand is flowing into the lower chamber, the spring is unwinding, gears are turning - even in the electric and digital clocks there is change - electrical pulses throw micro switches to advance the seconds, minutes and hours being displayed.
But time itself is not a man-made mathematical structure - only the tools and language we have invented to measure it.
I do think you nailed it.
...INFINITE mass ....wouldn’t time (”if it exists at all”) also stop if the temperature of absolute zero were also achieved?
“I always aced any science class. Math, I was lucky to pass.”
Interesting experience. Math is supposed to be the language of science. And the higher level science/engineering courses one took, the more math one needed to learn and to use. Then along came computers with canned software ....
Yes, at 0°K everything falls apart........................
Loved that movie.
Felt sorry for the Replicants.
Rutger Hauer was a great actor.................
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