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Subject: Does Time Exist?


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The Anti-Clique
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Date Posted: 20:51:03 06/25/01 Mon
 I don't think so. If you take a pen and throw it across a room, at any given instant, the arrow occupies a space on its path that's exactly the shape and size of itself, consistently equal (No bigger and no smaller). But in order to occupy a space that's exactly equal to itself in that instant, it can't be moving even a tiny fraction, because that would take up more space than itself. So no matter how minutely you divide "time" into instants, you still have a flying pen that's stationary in that instant. How can the arrow be moving then?
If the arrow IS moving, then the one instant of time that it occupies has to be moving with it, right? It stays where it is, locked in the instant with the "moving" arrow.
So time and movement are nonexistant. Anything comebacks?
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