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It's sloppy terminology for a physics forum - I mean how long is a moment?
First world problem I know, but still.
First world problem I know, but still.
< minute.houlahound said:I mean how long is a moment?
houlahound said:Yeah but is < minute a technically correct unit of time moment.
Drakkith said:But does it even matter?
fresh_42 said:Please don't! If I put this thought to an end we will read figures in Planck units ...
They are as speculative as 2+2=4. They are a mathematical tool.houlahound said:Plank units are too speculative.
Hardly physics...can you show me a 2 in the real world?mfb said:They are as speculative as 2+2=4. They are a mathematical tool.
I don't see the problem with "a moment ago". Xenforo does that by default.
Then Xenforo software needs an upgrade.Jonathan Scott said:A moment was originally a precisely defined amount of time; one fortieth of a solar hour, which was in turn a twelfth of the time between sunrise and sunset (and varied with the time of year). On average a moment was therefore about one and a half minutes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moment_(time)
Why? Just because you don't like a phrase used there?houlahound said:Then Xenforo software needs an upgrade.
Both the Planck units and 2 are mathematical concepts with applications in physics.houlahound said:Hardly physics...can you show me a 2 in the real world?
With that eureka "moment" I am closing this silly thread.houlahound said:OK I have gotten past this issue, thanks for sticking with.
On an educational note I have learned a moment in time is a legitimate scientific quantity based on celestial mechanics via the solar hour.
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