time - Page 1

so not to derail gouda's 15 page epic - moons questioned me re my odd response to his time questions;

has anyone stopped to consider what time is, what is actually being measured when you "tell" the time, at what rate does time pass? experimental fact, time depends on your proximity to mass - that seem odd to you? our notion of linear time is largely an artifact of the more recent mono-theistic and apocalyptic religions, there is no such analog (no pun there) "primitive" religions. the primitive religions are more in tune with what modern physics says about time WTF?

thoughts?

Seems as though everything has already happened, and is yet to happen, due to the curvature of space time.

bit big for my bandwidth;

this is a good read;

http://www.amazon.com/Longitude-Genius-Greatest-Scientific-Problem/dp/080271529X



excerpt

"Anyone alive in the eighteenth century would have known that "the longitude problem" was the thorniest scientific dilemma of the day--and had been for centuries.  Lacking the ability to measure their longitude, sailors throughout the great ages of exploration had been literally lost at sea as soon as they lost sight of land.  Thousands of lives and the increasing fortunes of nations hung on a resolution.  One man, John Harrison, in complete opposition to the scientific community, dared to imagine a mechanical solution--a clock that would keep precise time at sea, something no clock had ever been able to do on land.  Longitude is the dramatic human story of an epic scientific quest and of Harrison's forty-year obsession with building his perfect timekeeper, known today as the chronometer.  Full of heroism and chicanery, it is also a fascinating brief history of astronomy...."

LOL.....
I'm just amazed that you don't ever seem to know what time it is when I ask........

 

the question perplexes and consumes me.

Makes perfect sense to me.............

Forget the black holes and time space, the sun comes up, the sun goes down....LOL

moons how can you sit there all smug while knowing our galaxy revolves around a black hole?

I think it really could be a vitamin deficiency of some sort. Those fleeting beings running into the bush, always escaping in the nick of time on the edges of your periphery.  Related to Shrodingers' bushmen  perhaps? 

Man does not live on boiled salt meat, white sauce and potatoes, alone. A  B12 vitamin shot might help, too.

LOL... there are a lot of black holes around here...........

Why should I care?
It's either day or night, light or dark, breakfast lunch or dinner, actually the day's weeks and months seem to run together at my age.

I'm almost never late for an appointment though.

I know what time it is around the world, that's not hard to do at all.