Dear Achim:
we'll never find the definition of Time in a philosophical way.
Our mind has invented every concept in the world, therefore concepts cannot
be definitely explained by means of other concepts ! We can go further:
nothing exists without our mind, because things are nothing but mental
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Achim, My thoughts on time which I,m sure I read somewhere and I often
considered as a reasonable sundial inscription is:
"Without Time, everything would happen at once!"
Thus the time keeps everything from happening at once.
Bob Haselby [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The following URL contains some interesting (and useful) stuff.
http://www.cstv.to.cnr.it/toi/uk/toi.html
Regards,
Bruno
What, then, is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is.
If I wish to explain it to him who asks me, I do not know.
St. Augustine Confessions,
Book XI, Chapter XIV
A compression of Aristotle's thoughts on the beginning of time, in haiku form:
When did time begin?
It ever was! Was there time
When there was no time?
And some other musings on a very elusive topic:
If you would kill Time,
Know, as summer follows spring,
The favor's returned!
Suffer Time's re
Hello,
I am looking for the postal address of the US Naval Observatory at Washington DC
Could someone help ?
Thank you very much for you answer.
Henri GOAS.
Achiim,
The Time Standards page of my Clocks and Time Web site links to the U.S.
USNO (Washington, DC) and NIST (Boulder, CO) sites, which describe their
atomic clocks: http://www.ubr.com/clocks/freqstd.html . These sites have
much information on time.
In addition to the PTB, other major nation
>From the USNO Web page: http://www.usno.navy.mil/
Superintendent
U.S. Naval Observatory
3450 Massachusetts Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20392-5420
USA
(202) 762-1437
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I am looking for the postal address of the US Naval Obs
Achim-
A "period" is also the dot-thing at the end of a declarative sentence.
So much for humor.
For information on atomic clocks you might want to contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
