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Article #4309Re: Understand...!!!!
From: Mcinnes B T (Dr)
Date: Fri, 02 Oct 1992 01:30
Date: Fri, 02 Oct 1992 01:30
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pratt@Sunburn.Stanford.EDU (Vaughan R. Pratt) writes: : : Instead of debating the unanswerable question of whether time has any : existence, would it not be better to focus on explanations of observed : temporal phenomena? No. It isn't unanswerable. If the word "existence" has any meaning at a all, then time exists. I am amazed at all this talk of time being "defined" by clocks, at people who speak of spacetime as a "model", at talk of "temporal" phenomena by people who doubt that time exists. Spacetime is not "modelled" by semi-riemannian manifolds, it IS such a manifold. :
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Newsgroups: sci.physics Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!darwin.sura.net!jvnc.net!nuscc!matmcinn From: matmcinn@nuscc.nus.sg (Mcinnes B T (Dr)) Subject: Re: Understand...!!!! Message-ID: <1992Oct2.013051.20969@nuscc.nus.sg> Organization: National University of Singapore References: <1992Oct1.065519.10082@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU> Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 01:30:51 GMT Lines: 13