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Originally posted by Johnny Rotten
Everything is always moving, so there is no natural divider between Movement 1 and Movement 2. A ball that lands on the ground bounces, then stops bouncing, is still vibrating from the bounce in geometrically smaller ripples. A rock on a mountain is on Earth which moves through space like most every other celestial object. Time is the arbitrary 24-hour divider of what is, on the cosmic scale, a constant ocean storm.
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So time is continuous, not discrete. It's no big deal. You can say the same for space. It just happens that for purposes of practicality, we have approximate it to arbitrary discrete intervals, because if you gave someone a real number when they asked the time, they'd get pretty pissed off.
Man: "What time is it, buddy?"
Other man: "Uh, lets see, its 11:03 point 0885094587345982348762349....."
Man: "Zzzzz"
Plus by the time you'd started reading the time, it'd already be wrong. I don't see what implication human convention has for the possibility or otherwise of time travel. There is, of course a theory that if you look on a small enough scale, time is quantised, but that's another matter..