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Kevin Wampler schrieb:
>>>> Well, AFAIK there's actually no fundamental reason to apply
>>>> different "measuring tapes" to time and space:
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> Is you point that in space time there *is* a well-defined notion of
> distance which unifies both the spatial and temporal aspects, and thus
> we don't really need to use one set of units for space and another set
> for time? Your comment about light-seconds would make more sense in
> this context. If this is the case perhaps I've been misunderstanding
> your point form the beginning, since I'd surely agree with this.
Well, yes, I guess that's one way to express what I said: We don't need
different "measuring tapes" for time and space. How distance is measured
"diagonally" in spacetime is another story.
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