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MyshkinCommaPrince

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17. I may very well have misunderstood what I've read.

Sat Jul 20, 2013, 09:31 PM

Jul 2013

I do so quite often. I don't dispute the possible validity of your thought. I just sort of babble with the air going in and out, is all.

I do wonder whether your thought has some scientific grounding, or is more in the philosophical realm. Which is to say, is the question of the actual nature of time really relevant when considering a matter like the one in this thread? Does science bother with such considerations, whether they are ultimately valid or not? I don't know how to answer that (not the brightest person in the lamp, me), but it seems like one ends up with a philosophical conversation about what is real or how can we know anything, if we follow the idea of time as a purely perceptual phenomenon very far. Is the question relevant to the science under discussion? I ask less to challenge the idea than to try to understand something about which I may not know as much as I've thought.

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Astronomical distances, light speed, and uncertainty [View all] MyshkinCommaPrince Jul 2013 OP

I think you are on the right track - as an astronomy buff for years, it struck me very young NRaleighLiberal Jul 2013 #1

Even if you have had astronomy and physics it's mind bending. longship Jul 2013 #2

Yes, the expansion of space MyshkinCommaPrince Jul 2013 #3

Well, a couple of assumptions help. longship Jul 2013 #4

I don't think the concept is being 'ignored' so to speak... Wounded Bear Jul 2013 #5

Aha. MyshkinCommaPrince Jul 2013 #8

He may have brought it up in his 'Cosmos' series... Wounded Bear Jul 2013 #9

So we can be reasonably certain MyshkinCommaPrince Jul 2013 #6

"Can anyone shed light on the matter for me?" Spitfire of ATJ Jul 2013 #7

oh, I see what you did there... progressoid Jul 2013 #12

...if there's space. Spitfire of ATJ Jul 2013 #13

Distance Measurement in Astronomy DreamGypsy Jul 2013 #10

That does help. Thank you. MyshkinCommaPrince Jul 2013 #11

You are right and you are wrong.... RagAss Jul 2013 #14

So, umm. MyshkinCommaPrince Jul 2013 #15

I think we understand time very well. RagAss Jul 2013 #16

I may very well have misunderstood what I've read. MyshkinCommaPrince Jul 2013 #17

Science doesn't need to bother itself with such considerations. RagAss Jul 2013 #18

Okay, good. MyshkinCommaPrince Jul 2013 #19