Re: probably a dumb question, but.......

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Original poster: "by way of Terry Fritz <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" <Mddeming-at-aol-dot-com>

In a message dated 1/22/03 1:38:06 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
tesla-at-pupman-dot-com writes:



>Original poster: "james brady by way of Terry Fritz <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" 
><james_brady10-at-hotmail-dot-com>
>
>Well, this is probably a dumb question, but I want to ask it anyway:
>
>If all things have a resonant frequency, the earth, light, etc, does that
>mean that time has a frequency?


Frequency is defined as events per unit time. Then time/time=1, which is 
dimensionless, and thus has no measurable physical property (reality). One 
could argue poetically, that the period of time, if it exists, is eternity, 
and the "Wavelength" would be eternity/c, and thus is again unmeasurable. 
There are some who believe that the "Big Bang" is a cyclical phenomenon, 
and that the universe collapses to a point and then starts over every 
hundred billion years or so. This is a little OT, nut a great subject to 
discuss while sitting around a college dorm lounge on a cold, snowy night. 
It is also more socially acceptable than using your BIC to light the "green 
flame". ;-)))

Matt D.

For further reading:
        "The Collapsing Universe" Isaac Asimov
        "The Large Scale structure of Space-Time" S.W.Hawking and G.F.R.Ellis
        "Black Holes and Relativistic Stars" R.M.Wald, ed.
        "The Nature of Reality" Richard Morris
        "Epistemological Problems of Quantum Physics" A. Einstein et. al.