[SOC] Atomic clocks vs. time

[Michael Coslo]

On 3/10/10 12:14 AM, "Charles Harpole" <k4vud at hotmail.com> wrote:

> 
> Oh, it pains me to write such an non-SOC thing, but here goes:TIME IS AN
> INVENTED THING, hours and seconds, etc., are invented by man here on earth,
> just like math, If man disappeared when he does, minutes and seconds will go
> "at the same time."  One and one are two only within the system invented by

It's one of those things like the tree falling in a forest and making a
sound or not. It depends on whether we take a philosophical approach or a
deterministic one.

I'm fully convinced that while the human concept of time, hours, days,
seconds years and the like are a mere construct, if we disappear, it will
not change the nature of physics, chemical activity, or the state of matter,
which is always dependent upon some former state. These states, whether it
be the process of fusion in the sun, or even water falling over a waterfall,
the state of that matter depends on what has happened to it before it was in
it's present state. That change is the evidence that something has
transpired. Might as well call it time.

Woody Allen said it best:

Time is Nature's way of making sure that everything doesn't happen at once.

Okay, enough of that!!!!

Let's get back to SOC.

How about antenna launching stories? I've done enough stupid stuff trying to
put up antennas. Let's share.

    - 73 de Mike N3LI -