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Yes, indeed our timekeeping systems must correspond to real physical behaviour. Otherwise, they would be useless. Sundials, mechanical clocks, atomic clocks, radioactive decay all work because the universe contains stable and repeatable processes. But what they only do is to track regular physical change.

But moving from “clocks correspond to p…[Read more]

I think that Carrie Prejean Boller and Candace Owens have a secret deal going…

I can’t think of a reply or a witty retort.  I can only hear the words “Diet of Worms” (sic) echoing in my head and I am visualizing a sleuth of bears chanting “I’m a Bear and Bears love to embrace Catholics”  as they wander into the forest.

Reg:

I think that Carrie Prejean Boller and Candace Owens have a secret deal going: If one becomes the first female Pope, the other will be the first female Grand Inquisitor. And if Brigitte Macron becomes the first female Pope, they’ll both go Martin Luther-mouth-foaming Protestant.

Reg:

I’ll give all this my best college try, but it’ll be in small bites as much as I can chew and absorb.

I am not claiming that by treating time as non-fundamental explains daily life better. It doesn’t need to. We have evolved to quantify change as time passing. Cause and effect, before and later, and of course aging. This timekeeping l…

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I am not claiming that by treating time as non-fundamental explains daily life better. It doesn’t need to. We have evolved to quantify change as time passing. Cause and effect, before and later, and of course aging. This timekeeping ledger system of quantifying change serves us well.

But the problem arises from within physics itself. General R…[Read more]

Reg:

Fret not, I’ll wait until the laptop problem’s fixed. Meanwhile:

Member of White House Religious Liberty Commission booted after antisemitism hearing
Sophie Brams
Wed, February 11, 2026 at 5:15 PM EST
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/member-white-house-religious-liberty-221525146.html

🎶There she is!
Former Ms. California and Ms. USA…[Read more]

Reg:

What does non-fundanental non-divisible time explain that is not explained by time as a fundamental and divisible?

Yes, I see it this way.  But what connects my subjective experience to my “now”?

Yes Simon, your subjective experience of “now” is real. I am not denying that. But the mistake is when interpret that experience as a objective property of the Universe. The experience of “time flow” and therefore the experience of a “now” is real but the interpre…[Read more]

I’m still waiting for the killer app that comes from the notion that time is not fundamental. If there isn’t one, then this is all just parlor entertainment, not science.

That’s a fair challenge.  Physics doesn’t need a “killer app” before a concept is scientific. It needs explanatory power, consistency, and testable consequences. Back in 1905…[Read more]

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
Do you see “now” as a real moving present sweeping along the line or a a point of access within a fixed structure.

I understand it to mean “now” is local to you. But that doesn’t mean it moves. It just means your current brain state only has access to one region of your worldline. “Now” is real as perspective b…

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Fellow Unbelievers:

Here’s a reminder that “The Good Old Days Weren’t Always Good”:

Right Chemistry: America’s healthier past is no more than a myth
There was no era in which Americans were healthier than now, except in a romanticized imagination.

By Joe Schwarcz • Special to Montreal Gazette
Published Feb 06, 2026
Last updated Feb 06, 2…[Read more]

Reg:

I’m still waiting for the killer app that comes from the notion that time is not fundamental. If there isn’t one, then this is all just parlor entertainment, not science.

And there ain’t no such thing as a free lunch.

“Now is where I am now, in my timeline.”

Great…that is compatible with relativity. There is a subtle distinction to be made. Do you think “now” is a physical feature of reality….or is it a local perspective feature made by an observer within reality?

Yes, “now” is always local to an observer. You are local to “here” in your “now”. That is how…[Read more]

TheEncogitationer wrote:
In all fairness, any prediction could be considered true if the prognosticator talks nebulously enough, moves the goalposts, and, above all, talks a lot. Astrologers, psychics, and self-proclaimed “prophets” do it all the time.

They could, and they do, but this was different.  She went around telling people their futu…[Read more]

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
“Now” is not a universal property spread across space. The universe doesn’t care where the time zone line is drawn. Only humans do. Our segmentation of our experience of time flow is just a convention. The feeling that clock time reflects a moving reality is mistaken.

OK, true, the clock isn’t evidence of anyth…[Read more]

Jake:

Mother fucking Christ killing Zionist White colonial settler apartheid genociding guilt spreading emetic peripatetic homeless zioned clowned round mound lacking standing to be disbanding outperforming and chosen like Moses who opposes the Philistines and faerie queens & goddamn Lezbrews and zionist Jews guilt by association in a craven…

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Simon:

I used to know someone, a lowly speed freak from a council estate, who could tell people’s future. She could read a short distance into the future, and while we were all out that night, she told me about the drama that was unfolding at my home. When I got home, her story was true. She didn’t know where I lived, didn’t know any of the p…

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Mother fucking Christ killing Zionist White colonial settler apartheid genociding guilt spreading emetic peripatetic homeless zioned clowned round mound lacking standing to be disbanding outperforming and chosen like Moses who opposes the Philistines and faerie queens & goddamn Lezbrews and zionist Jews guilt by association in a craven nation…[Read more]

@Strega – next “time” someone says that, you should reply that “A clock is not a time detector; it is a controlled physical process used to compare spacetime intervals”. That you get you a free lunch 🙂

@Reg reminds me of a bloke I had lunch with, who claimed he could tell me the exact time any place anywhere, so I asked him what time it was on the moon.  It seemed to perturb him.