Are you sure about this statement? As far as I understand, inertia depends upon an objects mass except in very extreme gravitational situations, ie none or lots.
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It measures the number of times atoms osscilate. A feature closely linked to how light works.
Again, time is a 'physical' constrict/construct. For instance, time has no bearing at all upon my dreams, not an iota, because they are not physically constrained. There is no such constriction. If it is possible that time cannot apply to me while-dreaming (I recognize my body is someplace that it is constricted by, but my mind is completely elsewhere), then: If I can in any shape or fashion escape it's confinement, then God certainly, being infinite, has unequivocally and logically absolutely (absolute) no confinement issues and cannot.
I can give you a tape measure, I can't "give you six feet." Similarly, I can give you a watch. Because we are physical, you can find meaning in the physical universe by a tape measure or a watch. These instruments have random assignments that only are meaningful because we all decided to 'give' them meaning. Without us, 6 foot makes not an ounce of difference to the universe. Without us all agreeing with a watch, a minute makes absolutely no dent in the universe.
What? Do you really think when I'm dreaming of hours that hours are actually taking place? When I dream of the future or past, that it is impossible and I can't really do it? How does time apply to any dream?
That's your Open Theism talking again and very little else. Why? Why are you so committed to a theological stance that you won't listen to basic things? God has no beginning. Guess what? If you have no beginning, there is no time, period. Do you even understand that? Time is a measurement just like a degree is a measurement in C and F, just like a foot is a measurement. What do they all have in common? Yep, all man-made. Now what do they measure? Only what we can physically measure, every single one of them! Time is simply the 'passage' of physical things from one state of being to another. No change = no measurable time. A statue that doesn't change an iota in an hour has no need for the measurement called time because time ONLY measures change. Time is meaningless to unchanging. Even by OV standards, there are things about God that never ever, ever change. You need only carry the logic that every logical precept, and your bible sets: God is relational to time but there are aspects of Him that time (a measurement concept) cannot (impossible) touch.
The statements: "Lightspeed is a constant" and "Time is not a physical entity that can be manipulated" are assertions that can only be falsified. The mathematical formula associated with the former has been showed as flawed (see the link). The mathematical formula associated with the latter would be extremely similar to that for the former -- close enough such that the disagreement between us is largely semantic.
Cool.
Time is the distance between events. God can control events. When He does so, there is a length of time that happens between them which is analogous to the notion of truth. God cannot change what is true.
Rather, the concept concerns the physical and the measure concerns the physical, so no, I did not misspeak. Time is completely related to the physical. No physical = no time.
It is fairly simple: 1) do you agree that when you dream, time has no binding on your dream? It is true of merely 'thoughts' as well, but it is generally easier for people to understand that when they dream in hours and days in their dreams, that dreams generally take only minutes. Real time does not stop us from going into the past or jumping into the future, even and often within the same dream.
Its a good observation for this conversation. Either you are Open View because you don't get this or you don't get this because you are Open View, or both.
Because in order for 'minutes' (hours, days, weeks etc.) to exist, there must be a 'progression' (movement) from one state of being to another. NEVER having a beginnning, there is no place to measure/conceive of time with God. The awkward (but true) way to say this is that God's past 'is still going backward to infinity.' It is awkward because we are trying to use something finite (time) to explain the infinite and the 'time' language I've used merely gives the impression and understanding of the reality when finite (you and me, time, this universe etc.) meets and tries to explain the infinite. See my sig. God is beyond our ability to grasp; He is infinite, we are finite. We get small but accurate glimpses of His reality that is vastly beyond our created apprehension. My dog can only understand so much about me. She is created with limitations that she cannot escape. Likewise, as God's creations, we have limitations to our created being and can conceive correctly, but limited God's vastness but I can comprehend why God being infinite necessitates He is beyond our limited grasp of eternity (time). Time is a segment (finite) measurement/concept and tightly bound to our physical understandings. Without the physical? We'd have no concept of time and couldn't have it.
Oh. So now time is only "related" to physical entities.
No.
Do you watch movies? They jump around timelines as well.
Or else you are ranting nonsensically. :idunno:
Why not? He did things in the past that are now finished. :idunno:
...but somehow you have Him figured out.
Begging the question is a logical fallacy.