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Originally Posted by Profpat  Hi everybody;
I agree with you on this one nobody;
In other words, even if we didn't know of any tool called time, it would still take time for photons or waves to reach our eyes. So it seems as though time and space, dimensions in general, are pre-requisites of reality.
Jeff, you also have a good point in that under the theory of spatial inflation I believe our universe grew by light years in the matter of 1 second to the minus -33 power. Hardly any time at all.
Best,
Pat | Hey Prof, Nobody and you some others may be stigmatized as heretics with your acknowledgement that time is a real factor. There is, after all, an interval between two or more events, and that interval really is time...
Best regards,
- RP
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"All things come out of the one and the one out of all things." - Heraclitus
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