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Subject: Re: How is time really organized
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Thomas Heger wrote:
> 
> Am Samstag000018, 18.07.2026 um 00:40 schrieb Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn:
> > Natividad Ślusarski wrote:
> >> Maciej Woźniak wrote:
> >>> 2026-07-10 14:32:12.000000000 UTC.
> >>> This is time.
> >>
> >> no it's not; it's a event stamp regarding an unachievable reference of the
> >> past. Time is something completely else.
> >
> > In physics, there is such such thing as an "event stamp".
> >
> > An event is a point of (a) spacetime: it has a location in space and a time.
> >   The date above lacks a location, so it is just _a_ time (based on a time
> > standard, UTC) -- but not time itself, which is a physical quantity.
> >
> 
> No, spacetime is 'coordinates free'.
> 
> You need an 'anchor point' to define space and time, because points do
> not carry labels or calendars.
> 
> Somethings you always have as reference is your own position and some
> time called 'now'.
> 
> So, most of the time some 'here-and-now-systems' are used.
> 
> But those system are quite arbitrary, because you could possibly be
> somewhere else.
> 
> TH

Well, guys say here and now...and girls say this and that.

So, I tell girls, you see this here, well I want that now!

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