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Article #4806Re: Understand...!!!!
From: John C. Baez
Date: Tue, 06 Oct 1992 17:16
Date: Tue, 06 Oct 1992 17:16
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In article <1992Oct05.135406.24173@cubic.com> hees@cubic.com (Phil Hees) writes: >Interesting. I think Einstein would have disagreed with you. In fact, if >memory serves me correctly, he himself once said that "Time is that which >a clock measures." (Granted, this is an argument by appeal to authority, >but I don't think that such tactics are entirely without merit when the >authority cited is _the_ authority.) I thought it was Aristotle. Anyway, yes, "Time is what clocks measure" and "Clocks are what measure time" so if you know what one of these terms mean you figure out the other. >Remember Mach's Principle. Perfect sentence to launch McIness into another (accurate) diatribe against this dubious principle.
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Newsgroups: sci.physics Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!stanford.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!galois!riesz!jbaez From: jbaez@riesz.mit.edu (John C. Baez) Subject: Re: Understand...!!!! Message-ID: <1992Oct6.171602.25457@galois.mit.edu> Sender: news@galois.mit.edu Nntp-Posting-Host: riesz Organization: MIT Department of Mathematics, Cambridge, MA References: <1992Oct05.135406.24173@cubic.com> Date: Tue, 6 Oct 92 17:16:02 GMT Lines: 22