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Re: The Length of a Year (or the minute)
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Ron Burnett <[log in to unmask]>
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Ron Burnett <[log in to unmask]>
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Sun, 5 Jul 1998 14:08:04 EST
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Wirt illuminously writes:

> All time is perceptual. Other than the observable -- and inexorable,
> relentless, unstoppable -- motion of the planets around the Sun and
> the daily rotation of the Earth, time is an infinitely expandable
> quality.

And compressible, may I add?  Except, for reasons I still don't
understand, when setting your MPE/iX clock backwards.

Ron (in the company of Ponce de Leon, H.G. Wells, et al) Burnett
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