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The Starmaker wrote:
> 
> Ned Latham wrote:
> >
> > The Starmaker wrote:
> >
> > ----smip----
> >
> > > One cannot measure Time.
> >
> > One can, howevber, measure duration.
> >
> > > Surely you heard Einsten said Time is an illusion...
> >
> > Is that what he meant when he included time as the fourth dimension
> > in his postulated "space-time" continuum?
> >
> > ----snip----
> >
> > > The fact is...Time cannot even be...observed.
> >
> > False.
> >
> > > My how time flies...
> >
> > Start your stopwatch, observe the flies crawling along the surface
> > you put them on, stop the stopwatch.
> >
> > Simple, realt.
> 
> i don't want to measure...flies.


What time is it? It's a quater to three flies...