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To: js1138
To return to Zeno‘s paradoxes, the solution to all of the mentioned paradoxes then, that there isn‘t an instant in time underlying the body‘s motion (if there were, it couldn't be in motion), and as its position is constantly changing no matter how small the time interval, and as such, is at no time determined, it simply doesn't have a determined position.
I hate that as a "solution." All "isn't" and "doesn't."
60 posted on 07/31/2003 9:12:10 AM PDT by VadeRetro
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To: VadeRetro
Since time is an artiface, it can be as Humpty-Dumptyesque as we like.
65 posted on 07/31/2003 9:18:59 AM PDT by Old Professer
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To: VadeRetro
Artifice, sorry.
66 posted on 07/31/2003 9:20:16 AM PDT by Old Professer
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To: VadeRetro
Just a crazy thought...

You remember our way long ago conversation about the speed of light? Whatever distance light traverses, and at whatever speed, it takes some amount of time to go from A to B. So, if time doesn't move, and according to this author it has "no direction," and presumably no motion, what is the speed of light relative to immobile time? ;^)

68 posted on 07/31/2003 9:23:25 AM PDT by logos
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