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Old 08-20-2005   #4 (permalink)
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Re: What is time?

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Originally Posted by infamous
One answer that I've heard a couple of times, little pun there, is that time is really only the passage from one universal existence into the next and following universal existence. What this preception does is eliminates not only time but also all observed motion. I personally don't buy into the idea but I thought I would just throw it out there for discussions sake.
Ya, that's quite a stretch. And good question/topic, Craig. I have a large curiosity for this subject at the moment. (another pun 4u haha)

Richard D. Stafford, Ph.D describes it as the division between the past and the future, or in my mind, the known and the unknown.

http://web.archive.org/web/200512140...w/Fatalfla.htm


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