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Time and timekeeping
The theorists assume they are discussing time when it is really timekeeping they are referring to. Of course this goes back to a person who decided to define timekeeping as time itself using a calendar based facility known as the Equation of Time -
"Absolute time, in astronomy, is distinguished from relative, by the equation or correlation of the vulgar time. For the natural days are truly unequal, though they are commonly considered as equal and used for a measure of time; astronomers correct this inequality for their more accurate deducing of the celestial motions...The necessity of which equation, for determining the times of a phænomenon, is evinced as well from the experiments of the pendulum clock, as by eclipses of the satellites of Jupiter." Principia Before you all run back to relativity as an utterly bankrupt notion based on absolute/relative time,space and motion run back further and deal with the actual mess Newton created at the expense of astronomy and timekeeping. Of course intellectual rednecks only want to know enough that suits them but that is what rednecks always do. |
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