Re: Temporal database - no end date

Jon Heggland wrote:
>>Actually, Zeno and (much) later Einstein are a good place to start with
>>what happens when you think of chronons and infinity-as-process like
>>the ancient Greeks (and the rest of the world until Cantor) did.
>>
>>If I wanted to explain irrational numbers to an ancient Greek, I would
>>[snip]

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> Still nothing but smoke.
> ...

Yeah, I'll bet that book won't sell except to a handful of mystics. For sure, time will come to a stop (along with everything else) when you try to explain to most users why they need chronons and infinity-as-process.

p Received on Fri Jan 19 2007 - 05:49:24 CST