Salutatio Mark!
28-Feb-98, Mark Bloss wrote to richard claypool
          Subject: hello
 MB> > >richard claypool wrote to All about hello
 rc>> 36 02/26 22:37 FidoNet ->699 I'm new to this echo and wished to
 rc>> say "hi".  I enjoy philosophy but don't  have much time to debate
 rc>> it, IO love doing so however :). Here is a question,  I don't
 rc>> know if it fits here but if not oh well.
 rc>> Let's say that yjou're in a room.  You have in the middle of a
 rc>> room a  field, inside the field time is speeded up to twice our
 rc>> speed.  You walk over  to the field and atempt to put your hand
 rc>> into the otherside.  what happens to  your hand?
 MB> Aside from the fact that your example is a bit ambiguous as to
 MB> what "our speed" might be, I take it at face value - as you say,
 MB> and offer some speculation.
 MB> I suppose my hand disappears momentarily.  Perhaps if I stay there
 MB> two or three days, my fingernails will need trimming sooner than
 MB> otherwise.  Possibly - if I leave the room and come back a little
 MB> later, I will get to see my hand floating in the middle of the
 MB> field, since it was there before me.
Unless you decided to not put your hand in after you re-entered the room.
 Dicere...
 email address (vrmeic@nucleus.com)
Richard Meic
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