- - - - - - "DURATION" HAS CAUSED "PAST PROBLEMS" IN PHYSICS - - - - - -

Duration: "the time during which something lasts or continues" (Oxford).

A biophysical meaning is thence: "an interval during which scalar labels
of time can impinge upon a 'Mental Thought Process, MTP,' should such an
'MTP' coexist & receive Duration Event 'Mental Vector Processes, MVPs'."

A "Past Duration" can continue to exist AFTER the "Duration Now Events,"
just as "past scalar labels of time ('timetags')" can continue to exist.

Durations can also be "formed" independently of "Mental Thoughts, MTPs."

Duration is a difference between two temporal scalar labels, & therefore
it is also a scalar quantity with magnitude, but "NO SPACIAL DIRECTION."

If one flies south (from Canada) for 2 hrs at 500 km/hr the displacement
is 1000 km, which is a vector with magnitude 1000 km, & direction south.
But the 2 hr duration is here only "ASSOCIATED WITH" such a displacement
vector, and the "2 hrs" REMAINS a scalar quantity, as are ALL durations.

Such fact, often not incorporated in physics, points to "PAST PROBLEMS!"

Students of our past have learned the concept "distance is rate x time."
But this relationship should be "distance is rate x duration (of time)."
Similarly, "displacement is velocity x duration (of time)," where such a
"scalar duration" is the ratio of "vector displacement/vector velocity."

But a "duration (of time)" is redundant, as all durations are "of time!"
Thus: - - - - - - - - - "distance = rate x duration" - - - - - - - - - &
- - - - - - - - - - "displacement = velocity x duration" - - - - - - - .
BUT, with 2 temporal concepts * (time & "Time") the brackets are useful.

Yes!! There NEED BE no "spacial direction" associated with any duration;
& also no "spacial direction" IS NEEDED with any temporal scalar labels.

Temporal concepts are measured in: seconds, minutes, hours, days, years,
etc. These units are all durations, often measured by "rhythmic clocks."
Real "TIME" however, is "The mental & scalar reading OF various clocks."
Thus, ==> "ALL REAL TIME IS NOW TIME" <== (Concept #57 of "RBC Theory").

"Chimo," Inuktitut meaning: "<To Your Great Health & Great Happiness!>."
"A duration (of time)" is this day #(365250+/-1461)+365250+2544=~#733044
in this 3rd Millennium. "A duraTion (of Time)" is: day #353 of this "Sun
Cycle," or this 07:00:00 hrs, min, sec of "NLTime" (not "time"), 'peter'
Upper case "Ts" in "duraTion, Time, & NLTime," symbolize "RhythmicTime."

- - - - - Seemingly Important, and Hopefully Useful References - - - - -
Duration = Space/Speed see: <http://www.egroups.com/message/time/13133>.
More on Duration (timetags) <http://www.egroups.com/message/time/13218>.
For "MTP," & mind concepts: <http://www.egroups.com/message/time/13743>.
For concepts of "MVPs" see: <http://www.egroups.com/message/time/13983>.
* For TIME'S DUALITIES see: <http://www.egroups.com/message/time/13984>.
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