Ben - [C/x]
@benersing
Help me settle a debate. Is time an invention or a discovery? No using GPTs.
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moreReese
@morereese
Invention. Like time zones conception of time. Greenwich Mean Time was invented to coordinate ship activity and later adopted by the railways as a coordination mechanism https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenwich_Mean_Time
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Ben - [C/x]
@benersing
Isn't that just a measurement tool for something that already existed?
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notdevin
@notdevin.eth
It’s a measurement on a subset of information we call time. There is T Time and t time We invent lots of time = t There is a Time that’s much more complex than sets of t
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moreReese
@morereese
Ahhh that’s cool…t vs T. I’ve never considered t/Time through these related but different lenses. Thanks for the concise breakdown
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