Name: wildman jackson
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Date: Around 1993
Question:
One more quick (thoroughly dense) question: Scientists, and
Physicists of all types claim that time exists. Exist, meaning that there is
a "physical" factor called time, and that it plays an integral part in the
happenings within the universe. BUT, do you think that time is actually a
"real force" (i.e. "Actual phenomena") or that we simply invented time to put
a reference on the passage of events? I know this question is dense, but try
to understand it. Thanks.
Replies:
Another good question for a different section: Physics. Time
appears in equations just like position does. Time is a coordinate system.
Do x, y, and z "exist"? It is all relative, as Albert would say.
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