February 24, 1999

Nitpicking Time

People often say they do not have enough time, which implies that time is finite. No one ever runs out of infinity. Now, these people also claim that it is impossible to make time, seeing how it is finite. This is an error in thinking here for purely semantic reasons. Finite and constant do not mean the same thing. Constant time means that there is only one set amount of time in the universe, which any schedule planner will tell you is wrong since some people do make time. All of us have made time before for some activity... usually sleep. Now, we cannot make time at all times for a very good reason. If we continuously added time to the amount of time, then the linear (or worse, exponential) progression would continue you indefinitely... creating infinite time. Thus, we do live in a universe of finite time, but we do have the ability to make time, just not all the time.

How long did it take you to give up on understanding that complete waste of time above? Tell me sometime.