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"According to your definition #1, time is a name that represents a specific, constant quantity of motion. Yes, I and my associates agree. This corrects some centuries old error, which affirms time and motion to be unrelated. For example, Prof. Isaac Barrow, Prof. Isaac Newton's predecessor and mentor at Cambridge University, categorically asserted in the The Geometric Lectures that time does not imply motion. ... Even though Newton in a famous scholium says that time flows equably and by another name is called duration, he nevertheless probably agreed with Barrow that time is no aspect of motion, contradicting Aristotle."
"According to your definition #2, time is a name that represents a specific, constant quantity of motion that is equivalent to the speed of light in free space, and which is used as a standard for measuring all other motions. YES, my associates and I agree, but my profession disagrees."
"Your identification of time with the speed of light in free space corrects an ancient error voiced as early as Aristotle and taught to you and me as late as the twentieth century, the error of believing that "there is no movement apart from things."
"The author of this pamphlet about Time [The Solution to the question, "What is time?"] illustrates how sometimes the amateur in physics can come closer to truth about physical nature than the professional physicist. Mr. Nordberg's identification of time with the speed of light, that is, his meaningfully relating time to a constant quantity of motion in the speed of light, is light years' ahead of the physicist's definition of time as what you measure with a clock."
"Mr. Nordberg's wonderful insight into the discrete nature of time reminds me of Benjamin Franklin's seminal intuition, expressed in his Autobiography, that "time is the stuff life is made of.""
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