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From: els@CSvax:Pucc-H:pur-phy.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.physics
Subject: Re: The Second as a function of Time
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Date: Mon, 29-Aug-83 12:12:30 EDT
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Posted: Mon Aug 29 12:12:30 1983
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     Ha!Ha!Ha!  That WAS meant as a joke wasn't it????   Anyone who has
had more than three days of calculus can tell that that dt/dt stuff is
just silly!  After all dx/dx = 1, does that mean that every time I move
through some distance, my distance scale changes??? That only happens at
the end of the day when I head for home.  This is just a form of circular
reasoning (You know, that old stuff about using something to define itself!).
     
     The issue of how the flow of time changes is a very complex one.  To
talk knowledgably about it, one should have at least been exposed to some
Special Relativity.  In fact, this issue probably contains a semi-infinite
number of PhD theses in the realm of General Relativity.

                                  els[Eric Strobel]
                                  pur-ee!pur-phy!els