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From: The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com>
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Subject: Re: How is time really organized
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2026 15:16:50 -0700
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The Starmaker wrote:
> 
> 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!
> 


I was over here, and now I'm over here.





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