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0271 What distinguishes the various patterns in the lower left corners of this text? In everyday life we would say: the situation or configuration of the involved entities. The situation somehow describes all those aspects which can differ from case to case. It is customary to call the list of all non-permanent or variable aspects of a set of objects their (physical) state of motion, or simply their state. The situations in the lower left corners differ first of all in time. Time is what makes opposites possible: a child is in a house and the same child is outside the house; time describes and resolves this type of contradiction.
Seen this way, space and time have an existence of their own. In this sense one can say that they are fundamental or absolute. On the other hand, space and time are tools of description which allow to talk about relations between objects. In this view, they do not have any meaning when separated from objects, and only result from the relations between objects; they are relational or relative. Between these two viewpoints, which one do you prefer? The results of physics have alternatively favoured one over the other; we will follow this alternation throughout our adventure, until we find the solution to the puzzle.
200 000 a ca. 6 · 109 a ca. 12 · 109 a ca. 12 · 109 a ca. 1015 a Table 5 Challenge 460 41 Some time measurements sequence and a standard duration is defined. The device which performs this task is called a clock. ∗ We can thus answer the question of the section title: time is what we read from a clock. Note that all definitions of time used in the various branches of physics are equivalent to this one; no ‘deeper’ or more fundamental definition is possible. Note as a curiosity that the word ‘moment’ is indeed derived from the word ‘movement’.