So what is time and how do you measure it?
On the subject, saying that there's no such thing as "now" is like saying that a derivative is meaningless "because you're dividing zero by zero, aren't you?" There is a definite "now", but (strangely) it takes an unusually abstract line of thought to justify what we know intuitively. Just like we know that there's some point in a circle where the tangent line is flat...
As for time itself...the first dictionary definition is:
the system of those sequential relations that any event has to any other, as past, present, or future; indefinite and continuous duration regarded as that in which events succeed one another.
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I'm not that well trained philosophically, so I can't see what's slippery in the above.
Was the earth created in a single day or over a long period?
I'm afraid I'm going to take the Clarence Darrow cop-out :)
This is what I have most trouble wrapping my head around. Can you explain the last part?
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Okay: the tangent line is a line whose slope is equal to the slope of a function at a certain point. Think of an eight foot long 2 X 4 placed on or under a specific part of a small Ferris wheel or huge Hula hoop. Something like this:
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AC would be the "2 x 4". It's the tangent.
Intuitively, we know that there are two places where the "2 x 4" would be horizontal: i.e., have a slope of zero. Flat. :)
But it is hard to justify because the circle has no edges.
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