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From: grintjes@sci.kun.nl (Tom E.J. Gruintjes)
Subject: Re: Is time continuous?
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You wrote :

"Thus, asking what is the fundamental unit of time is similar
to asking what is the fundamental unit of distance (which
is also a derived object). One needs to supply a context 
when asking such sort of questions; each reference to
a derived object needs to be grounded to the actual object.

For example, the question of "Can we travel back in time?"
should be rephrased as "Can we relocate all the atoms
to a particular pre-existed configuration?" 
"

So that means you think time is discrete : a huge array of
configurations of atoms?


Tom

