Path: csiph.com!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: The Starmaker Newsgroups: sci.physics,sci.physics.relativity Subject: Re: Can science prove time is not real? Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2023 11:37:17 -0800 Organization: The Starmaker Organization Lines: 86 Message-ID: <6407926D.604@ix.netcom.com> References: <64064422.3FDB@ix.netcom.com> <1q77w7w.1gueqyn1crgmm5N%nospam@de-ster.demon.nl> <8ebd9cc0-ae10-4fe3-a9de-afaf219e52ecn@googlegroups.com> Reply-To: starmaker@ix.netcom.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: reader01.eternal-september.org; posting-host="d3758d26e74832c26e6ea44231aefac2"; logging-data="571637"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19TIzWs08YQ4d1G2mj44EuS/h3RrOvAjgM=" Cancel-Lock: sha1:RjVbIpXc77wB4m9c7GsvFFZGxPo= X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.04Gold (WinNT; U) X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Antivirus: Avast (VPS 230306-0, 03/05/2023), Outbound message Xref: csiph.com sci.physics:870770 sci.physics.relativity:603256 whodat wrote: > > On 3/7/2023 9:53 AM, Timothy Golden wrote: > > On Tuesday, March 7, 2023 at 5:14:38 AM UTC-5, J. J. Lodder wrote: > >> Sylvia Else wrote: > >> > >>> On 07-Mar-23 6:50 am, The Starmaker wrote: > >>>> mitchr...@gmail.com wrote: > >>>>> > >>>>> why are you using a clock? > >>>>> > >>>>> Mitchell Raemsch > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> Okay, help me with my Time problem... > >>>> > >>>> If you got one twin on earth.. > >>>> and his watch sez 12:00pm... > >>>> and the other twin is on > >>>> the Moon...and his watch > >>>> sez 1200:pm > >>>> > >>>> and he walks to > >>>> the otherside > >>>> of the moom.. > >>>> What time does his watch sez? > >>>> > >>>> I mean, is it 12:00pm no matter > >>>> what time zone he is on the Moon? > >>>> > >>>> I mean, is it still the same time > >>>> whether it is daytime or nighttime on the moon??? > >>>> > >>>> Is it 12:00pm everywhere on the Moon???? > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>> > >>> Time zones are a human invention intended to allow what a local clock > >>> shows to correspond to approximately the same point in the daily cycle > >>> regardless of where one is on Earth (very approximately, in the case of > >>> some parts of China). > >>> > >>> Since lunar days are a month long, time zones in the terrestrial sense > >>> will never be used. Moon bases, if they ever exist, will probably set > >>> their clocks according the local time of whatever terrestrial entity owns > >>> the base. > >> As is already done in permanent stations in Antarctica. > >> Some stations shift though, with a different time for summer and winter. > >> Nothing deep there, just practicalities, > >> > >> Jan > > > > Isn't moon time about 28 Earth days per moon day? That's 672 Earth hours per moon day. > > Got to mod the dial on your Earth watch a bit. Might need an extra hand too. > > Probably better just to use unix time. > > You know, this the one instance where scifi could set the newsgroup > reader's mind at ease. Over the years the various TV series have made it > clear that wherever the "mission" was in space an arbitrary 24 hour > artificial day could be successfully established since that is what the > human being evolved in and an environment we successfully survived in > from a protohuman state right through to and including homo sapiens. > > Attempting to relegate some sort of a day to local conditions is a > fools errand. Consider the success of the human being to live north of > the arctic circle where extremely long periods are of effective daylight > and similarly long nights. > > "Starmaker" sent those willing to pay attention to him on this fools > errand. Shame on those who fell for it. Please ignore him in the future. So your M.O. is..."Do as I say, not as I do.' ...hypocrite. tsk, tsk. shame on you. You're evil. a bad bad boy. Despicable! -- The Starmaker -- To question the unquestionable, ask the unaskable, to think the unthinkable, mention the unmentionable, say the unsayable, and challenge the unchallengeable.