viernes, 30 de octubre de 2009

wonderful time

in the chapter of lost in time, savater talks about aristotle. aristotle thinks that movement is "intrinsically" linked to movement. i would like to develop or explain what i think about this idea. the idea that time is so dependent to movement is very interesting, because it shows that there has to be a change so that time can be time, it is like we have to grow or everything has to transform so that time can be what we call time. for example, plants grow and change some qualities like shape, color, and other ones, so time passes because the plant grew, but if the plant stayed the same no matter what then time would not be time, because what would be the point of time if there is no change to be measured. we use time to measure the duration of movements, trying to find out how long it takes to something to move and by consequence to change in appeareance. time can be expressed in many ways and still we dont know exactly what it is because the truth is that we just use it to like measure what we do, but we dont understand how we got to that measurement, since centuries ago time has been used, even day and night were created to describe the rotation of the earth and 24 hours to tell how long it takes for the earth to do a complete rotation. my point is, if there were no movement then there would be no time because there would be nothing to measure.

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