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To: DesertRhino
A clock running slower, isn’t magically making time pass slower. Its an accuracy problem.

You apparently aren't very familar with atomic clocks.

Accuracy is not a problem.

There are measurable effects to time due to acceleration.

59 posted on 08/14/2008 11:20:01 AM PDT by zeugma (Mark Steyn For Global Dictator!)
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To: zeugma

>>There are measurable effects to time due to acceleration.

“To time”.

Presumes time exists as an entity that is separate from the system that is being observed.

Certainly we can see changes in observable phenomena within a system; changes that are relative to the velocity of that system.

The concept of time is a human construct that is derived from observing these state changes within the system.

If the system no longer changes state, what happens to time?


61 posted on 08/14/2008 11:36:48 AM PDT by LomanBill (A bird flies because the right wing opposes the left.)
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