Call for ban on "moment ago" on posts.

[houlahound]

It's sloppy terminology for a physics forum - I mean how long is a moment?

First world problem I know, but still.

 

[Bystander]

I mean how long is a moment?

< minute.

 

[houlahound]

Reference, citation?

 

[Bystander]

Presumably you're asking me for a citation when you can do the measurement for yourself? Just pull the trigger on "post," and watch.

 

[houlahound]

Yeah but is < minute a technically correct unit of time moment.

 

[Drakkith]

Posts or changes less than one minute old are shown as "a moment ago".

Yeah but is < minute a technically correct unit of time moment.

Yes.
Edit: Sorry, I misunderstood what you were asking. I don't think the term 'moment' is defined as some exact amount. But does it even matter?

 

[fresh_42]

Please don't! If I put this thought to an end we will read figures in Planck units ...

 

[houlahound]

But does it even matter?

Good question, i will have to think about it for a moment.

 

[houlahound]

Please don't! If I put this thought to an end we will read figures in Planck units ...

Plank units are too speculative.

 

[Jonathan Scott]

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)

 

[mfb]

Plank units are too speculative.

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.

 

[houlahound]

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.

Hardly physics...can you show me a 2 in the real world?

 

[houlahound]

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)

Then Xenforo software needs an upgrade.

Thanks for the link, interesting.

 

[mfb]

Then Xenforo software needs an upgrade.

Why? Just because you don't like a phrase used there?

You are inventing a problem that does not exist.

Hardly physics...can you show me a 2 in the real world?

Both the Planck units and 2 are mathematical concepts with applications in physics.

 

[houlahound]

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.

 

[Mark44]

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.

With that eureka "moment" I am closing this silly thread.