How to label displacement through time

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I was wonder what units you would use to measure your motion through time?
 
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anorlunda said:
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How about seconds?
I'm talking about movement through space combined with movement through time is equal to the speed of light. we measure time in seconds but what does a second actually stand for?
 
physics_student16 said:
I'm talking about movement through space combined with movement through time is equal to the speed of light. we measure time in seconds but what does a second actually stand for?
It's actually ##c\cdot t## what we measure, so meter will do.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minkowski_space#Minkowski_metric
 
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