Mitchell Smith <mit
...@enteract.com> wrote in message <
news:3D942942.B3332793@enteract.com>...
> "V.Gopal" wrote:
> > We cannot develop a formula to communicate rate of displacement per
> > unit time and period of time requird to travel unit distance, if the
> > motion does not divide time into equal intervals.
> I have seen your comments with respect to time. You should pick up a
> copy of Kant's "Critique of Pure Reason" to obtain intuition concerning
> time as a phenomenon different from that assumed by the modern physical
> paradigm.
> There is a natural bias in a discipline whose origins were so focused on
> explaining motion along paths to incorporate a notion of time
> corresponding to a geometric line. But, physics does not include
> phenomena like the interval clock in the human brain which resets upon
> recognition of patterns of stimuli (Scientific American, September
> 2002). Consequently, a commen like yours is senseless with respect to
> their (unfounded) Platonistic perspective.
> Your comment reflects Zeno's paradox in which Zeno uses motion to divide
> time into "coefficients" for an absolutely convergent series. Since
> these intervals comprise a decreasing chain approaching zero in the
> limit, no finite sum allows the contestant to cross the finish line. If
> Zeno had been restricted to the constraint you suggest, he never could
> have formulated the paradox.
> :-)
> mitch smith
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