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Posted: 27 Jul 2017


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Alan Burdick
WHY TIME FLIES


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….A sun dial tracks a moving shadow around its face, the hours are marked with printed numerals. Does the clock count the numbers or do you? Does time exist independently of the mind that counts it? “Whether, if soul did not exist, time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked,” Aristotle mused, “for if there cannot be something to count, there cannot be anything that can be counted.” It’s like the koan about the falling tree in the forest: is coal a clock if there is no scientist to measure its C-14/C-12 ratio? Augustine was resolute: time resides in measuring of it, which makes it solely a property of the human mind. On hears an echo of Augustine in the late physicist Richard Feynman, who pointed out that the dictionary definition of time is circular: time is a period, which is defined as a length of time. Feynman added, “What really matters anyway is not how we define time, but how we measure it. ~ Page 29

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