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To: Sidney Reilly who wrote (52976)	8/24/1999 9:24:00 PM
From: Father Terrence	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Is it? Whose time is correct, Newton's or Einstein's? Does time exist in a black hole?

To: Sidney Reilly who wrote (52976)	8/24/1999 11:19:00 PM
From: E	Respond to of 108807

<<<Yes time moved forward before the measurement of time was invented! and also a tree falling in the forest when no one is there to hear it still makes a sound. It's just physics!>>> It makes sound if sound is defined as the transmitting of certain waves. It doesn't if sound is defined as the effect of those waves on parts of organisms-- ear drums and such. To me, if there are no eardrums, there is no 'sound.' As for time, Terrence, things took place in stages before "man-made inventions." Things began and they ended. Nobody kept time until we were around. But things began, and, finally, they ended.

To: Sidney Reilly who wrote (52976)	8/25/1999 1:28:00 AM
From: epicure	Respond to of 108807

"Time" as a word or a concept would not exist- because there was no one to give it a name and to perceive it. If you mean would "things" happen and proceed in some manner, would the phenomenon we call time proceed, then yes. It is like the phenomenon of gravity- things won't suddenly fly off the Earth if man ceases to exist. There will, however, be (IMO- I can't know for SURE that animals don't think about gravity, but I think it is highly unlikely that they do- and that they know the phenomenon by the name "gravity") no one to call it gravity or to perceive it acting if there are no people left.