[lojban] Re: the long and short of it

[Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org>]

On Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 12:53:32PM -0400, Pierre Abbat wrote:
> On Tuesday 15 June 2004 12:17, MorphemeAddict@wmconnect.com wrote:
> > why not still use "clani" (and "tordu" for short) and use 'time' in
> > the dimension slot?
> 
> Makes sense to me - time is usually by far the longest dimension of an
> object.

<sigh>

Time is not a dimension.  Dimensions are, definitionally, axis of
freedom; as we can only "move" one direction in time, it doesn't count.
Furthermore, there's no evidence that time is movement in any sense
whatsoever; it could be that there is a granular smallest time interval,
and that what we call time is merely the progression of states of the
universe over units of that size.  We don't know.

Time is often used as a dimension in graphing various physical effects
because it makes things easier to deal with.  That doesn't magically
make it a dimension.

-Robin

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