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From: williams@kirk.DEC (John Williams 223-3402)
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Subject: Whiz Wiz
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Date: Mon, 13-May-85 15:23:06 EDT
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          Time is perpendicular to the inertial frame.

        The observational differences between space and time  are
manifested  by virtue of our reference.  That is, matter is space
that travels through  time,  and  energy  is  time  that  travels
through  space.  However, everything travels, so everything is in
a mixed phase relationship.  If either dimension becomes  static,
it turns to pure matter or energy.

        Because we, as observers, are  based  more  on  a  matter
phase  relationship, we perceive time to be the mobile dimension,
when in actuality, all things are  mobile.   We  just  happen  to
exist in the inertial frame.

        But I think the main point is that time and space are not
interchangeable.   They  have  a  relationship.  You can't simply
transform one to the other.  The inertial frame isolates time  as
the  mobile dimension.  All things tend to seek the same inertial
frame.  It is this frame that determines the direction of time.

                                        John Williams

    < Even when you're standing still, you're still moving >