Further Treatises on Time... (Humans)

by David Turell , Saturday, March 19, 2011, 01:17 (4795 days ago) @ xeno6696

Dhw and I are like two circling and hungry cats, stalking around the mouse of time. Each is convinced of his own notions of the mouse, and each is equally convinced that they, indeed are the one who will eat the mouse. 
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> I sense you are very tired of me. But the 'common sense' level tends to frustrate me because I obsess over corner cases—although quantum mechanics is hardly a corner case. In my case I need to try and regroup and try to find a different way to explain myself.-I got tired of the whole subject awhile ago. The universe is timeless, but not eternal in the meaning I am using. We invent time intervals based on rotation of the Earth, Earth orbit, etc. The Earth is also measureless, but we set up measurements based on the length of a man's foot or a standard meter. Weight in old England was based on a standard stone. So the Earth is weighless also. We invent all of these measurements, and they are mental games, but necessary to conduct manufacture and other activities, the Olympics for example. And in quantum mechanics, where everything is an average of activity, no time is all the time. I don't think a romantic writer of tall tales and stories and live plays can ever really cross swords with a hard-nosed mathematical physicist. They both approach life so differently. And I was raised on detective stories in med school, so I look for solutions to puzzles. I'm happy with my view of time, and Matt has helped me with Einstein. With much thanks.