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Re: Should we synchronize clocks?

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Am Dienstag000031, 31.03.2026 um 10:05 schrieb Maciej Woźniak:
> On 3/31/2026 9:14 AM, Thomas Heger wrote:
>> Am Montag000030, 30.03.2026 um 10:14 schrieb Maciej Woźniak:
>>> On 3/30/2026 8:58 AM, Thomas Heger wrote:
>>>> Am Sonntag000029, 29.03.2026 um 21:36 schrieb Victo Grzeskiewicz:
>>>>> Maciej Woźniak wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Time is what clocks indicate.
>>>>>
>>>>> no, that's a reading of a time stamp
>>>>
>>>> Time isn't the reading of a clock.
>>>>
>>>> That statement (of Einstein) was hilarious nonsense.
>>>>
>>>> Clocks are man-made devices and time should be understood as a 
>>>> phenomenon in nature.
>>>>
>>>> And nature is not supposed to care about what humans have created or 
>>>> read out.
>>>
>>> Nature isn't. Time absolutely is.
>>>
>> What you essentially say:
>> time is an artifact.
>>
>> I don't agree, because time is a natural phenomenon.
> 
> We're calling with this word: TAI, UTC, zone times.
> They're artifacts.
> Physics is calling with this word some mystical
> nonsense it was never able to specify (the only
> definition it was ever able to make leads to our
> times, not her time).
> 

Actually the rotation of the Earth was used to define days, hours, 
minutes and seconds.

And the Earth isn't an artifact.

Why the Earth rotates and by that particular frequency, that is a 
different story. But it's absolutely natural.


TH

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