Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/09/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>>>>> Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2000 22:53:48 -0700 From: Mike Quinn <mlquinn@san.rr.com> Subject: Re: [Leica] arm's length Message-ID: <B5EAFBFC.13957%mlquinn@san.rr.com> References: Robert: Listen to Joe. All pictures capture the past. Pictures of people capture the recent past. Pictures of the heavens capture events in the far distant past. Only your perception is happening now. N.B. "Except in Italy" - Galileo Mike Robert Appleby wrote: > Mark, if you can see it, it's happening now. That's why pictures capture > the present moment, not the past. Of course, it's always too late to do > anything about it! In a message dated 9/15/00 2:26:33 PM Eastern Daylight Time, mark@rabiner.cncoffice.com writes: << The speed of light is only so fast. By the time the light bounces off the hand of your watch and hits your eyeball who knows what time it is? Markwr >> That depends. How long is your arm? Joe Sobel <<<<<< You're about a century out of date on this one. Maybe the LUG is happening in the distant past! Simultaneity hasn't been the same since 1906 (coincidentally the year of my birth). Rob. Robert Appleby V. Bellentani 36 41100 MO Italy tel. (+39) 059 303436 mob. (+39) 0348 336 7990