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Re: How is time really organized

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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

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How is time really organized Maciej Woźniak <mlwozniak@wp.pl> - 2026-07-17 13:36 +0200
  Re: How is time really organized Natividad Ślusarski <rsi@val.pl> - 2026-07-17 12:10 +0000
    Re: How is time really organized Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2026-07-18 00:40 +0200
      Re: How is time really organized Cale Balabuha <eah@baal.ru> - 2026-07-17 23:04 +0000
      Re: How is time really organized Maciej Woźniak <mlwozniak@wp.pl> - 2026-07-18 06:34 +0200
        Re: How is time really organized "Paul B. Andersen" <paul.b.andersen@paulba.no> - 2026-07-19 10:44 +0200
        Re: How is time really organized The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2026-07-19 15:55 -0700
          Re: How is time really organized Maciej Woźniak <mlwozniak@wp.pl> - 2026-07-20 06:18 +0200
        Re: How is time really organized Thomas Heger <ttt_heg@web.de> - 2026-07-20 07:39 +0200
          Re: How is time really organized Ivo Balakirev <vaovb@kkrea.ru> - 2026-07-20 10:12 +0000
            Re: How is time really organized Thomas Heger <ttt_heg@web.de> - 2026-07-22 08:36 +0200
          Re: How is time really organized The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2026-07-20 10:44 -0700
      Re: How is time really organized Thomas Heger <ttt_heg@web.de> - 2026-07-20 07:37 +0200
        Re: How is time really organized Maciej Woźniak <mlwozniak@wp.pl> - 2026-07-20 08:28 +0200
          Re: How is time really organized Thomas Heger <ttt_heg@web.de> - 2026-07-22 08:28 +0200
            Re: How is time really organized Maciej Woźniak <mlwozniak@wp.pl> - 2026-07-22 09:41 +0200
        Re: How is time really organized "Paul B. Andersen" <paul.b.andersen@paulba.no> - 2026-07-20 13:13 +0200
          Re: How is time really organized Maciej Woźniak <mlwozniak@wp.pl> - 2026-07-20 17:21 +0200
          Re: How is time really organized Thomas Heger <ttt_heg@web.de> - 2026-07-22 08:41 +0200

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