Re: Time

[Ludwik Kowalski <kowalskiL@Mail.Montclair.edu>]

William Newbolt wrote:

> I guess I tend to think of time as  the universal parameter of
classical physics.
> I think Newton understood that the mechanics he was working out need
to be
> parameterized in terms of something.  He chose time.  ......

In my opinion time, a "continuos sequence of instances" is as
fundamental as
directions in space "continuos sequences of locations". As such it can
not be
described in terms anything more basic. It is what it is. The issues
worth
discussing in physics are: a) how to measure it accurately, b) its
relative
nature and c) ?? Philosophers may stretch this list.