From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!uwvax!doug Newsgroups: net.misc Title: Re: time: as considered as a ... Article-I.D.: uwvax.516 Posted: Fri Jul 30 09:37:10 1982 Received: Sat Jul 31 07:06:32 1982 References: pur-phy.415 to: harpo!decvax!pur-ee!purdue!Physics:retief I wasn't referring to dt/d(tau). What I meant was this: people keep talking about "moving" through time, as though they were going some "place" (in space-time, I presume). Does this make sense? Are we, in fact, moving through space-time? If we ARE moving through space-time, with reference to WHAT are we moving? Doesn't special relativity actually say that we are NOT moving at all and that any point in space-time is not especially unique? Doesn't five minutes ago at this terminal exist at five minutes ago at this terminal? Isn't the structure of space-time static and just there? doug@uwisc