To me "time" certainly feels like a continuum. The old metaphor is that time is a river. It just keeps on flowing.

Yet how do we measure time? Isn't it necessary to "clock" time by counting discrete (digital) events be they seasons, moonrises, sunrises, mechanical tick-tocks or vibrating atoms? Doesn't this mean that, ultimately, time is only a series of finite, separate events?

Yet in our guts, we are sure that time is a continuum. Is there some kind of Zeno's paradox here?

Is time digital or analog?

-- Lars (lars@indy.net), September 11, 2001

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As I write this, it is 11:41.857318426623375645326754275753............PM

-- Lars (lars@indy.net), September 11, 2001.

I thought it was memorex.

-- Jack Booted Thug (governmentconspiracy@NWO.com), September 11, 2001.