Originally posted by Symmetric Chaos
So you think that length doesn't exist because we had to invent the inch? Would save me a lot of gas if that were true.
length does not exist outside of the human construct. It is a term humans made up to describe a the distance between 2 coordinates on 1 dimensional axis of space-time.
a log is three dimensional. There is height, width and depth. Length being a term describing distance between two coordinates, it can be used by us humans on any one of those dimensions.
If humans do not exist, how long is the log in depth? It's not. It's merely a log. Without humans to manufacture not only units of measurment, the means of calculating by these units and naming the log itself..................all there is a piece of matter.
same goes for time. Any time someone discusses the subject, they should attempt to discuss it from the point of view that human beings do not exist to avoid the entaglement of human-made notions like measurements (past,present, future, day, week, month, year, etc.) that we are all so accustomed to.