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The Starmaker wrote:
> 
> Thomas Heger wrote:
> >
> > Am 01.03.2024 um 07:25 schrieb Maciej Woźniak:
> >
> > >>
> > >>> The concept of time is actually based on counting events, about which
> > >>> we assume, they would occur always with the same frequency.
> > >>
> > >>> That was the year or the day in ancient times and later the hour and
> > >>> the second.
> > >>
> > >>> Much later men counted the waves in certain kinds of exitations of
> > >>> certain atoms.
> > >>
> > >>> But in all cases a process of counting was meant, where the
> > >>> underlying frequency was assumed to be universally constant.
> > >>
> > >>> But: that is problematic, because actually we don't know, whether
> > >>> these frequencies are universally constant or not.
> > >>
> > >>> This is so, because the second is defined and measured by the same
> > >>> process, which frequency we like to measure.
> > >>
> > >> This all comes down to the age-old question that has been repeatedly
> > >> debated on these forums: What is a clock?
> > >
> > > https://www.bing.com/search?q=clock+picture&form=ANNTH1&refig=7f26d3e3f0dd44458d7e38ba627e82c5&pc=U531
> > >
> > > These are, poor halfbrain.
> > >
> > >
> >
> > All of these do not show time!
> >
> > Dates belong to time values, too, because time is not only counting the
> > hours, minutes and seconds within a single day.
> >
> > TH
> 
> does time flow? how do you 'detect' the flow??
> 
> oh, oh, i'm running out of time! does time run?
> 
> if arrow of time, where is the bow?
> 

What
time
does
your
phone
say?

Do
you
set
your
phone
for
sunrise?






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to think the unthinkable, mention the unmentionable, say the unsayable, 
and challenge the unchallengeable.

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