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Re: [OM] [Way OT] And the science is hardly settled...

Subject: Re: [OM] [Way OT] And the science is hardly settled...
From: Chris Barker <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2012 18:27:45 +0000
Indeed, Bob.  I become impatient with theories about time when it's merely a 
construct for our use; it's a language, a device for communication.

I'm happy to exercise imagination and for others to do so, but I like to be 
allowed my own idea of time . . . 

Chris

On 8 Dec 2012, at 18:21, Bob Whitmire <bwhitmire@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Time exists in the sense that birth follows conception, and not the other way 
> around. Never mind Brad Pitt movies. Time's arrow moves forward, or what we 
> call forward, as we have nothing much else to call it. Something about 
> entropy. The physicists write whole books on this stuff. I read a fascinating 
> article a while back on Time's Arrow, but now I can't find it.

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