Meeting contribution: It's about time

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Dec 2006

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2006jbaa..116..335k&link_type=abstract

Journal of the British Astronomical Association, vol.116, no.6, p.335-337

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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Prof Kurtz opened by listing a series of questions. What was time? We liked to think of it as a line - a river flowing from past to future - but how accurate was that image? Did the past have any real existence beyond our perception of its having once been? Was time travel possible? Such were not questions that he or anyone else could answer; the nature of time was an unsolved philosophical puzzle. In the fifth century, St Augustine had observed: 'What, then, is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain what it is to him who asks me, I do not know.' Meanwhile a modern dictionary offered only that 'time' was a 'measured or measurable duration', while 'duration' was the 'time in which a thing lasts' - a circular definition. And so, in this talk, he would leave such matters aside, addressing instead the measurement of time.

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