...complete geocentric cosmological model. With regard to the important question of time, Hawking observes: "Both Aristotle and Newton believed in absolute time....would be the same whoever measured it, provided they use a good clock. Time was completely separated from and independent of space." ' ' Throughout history...

...STRATEGIES FOR SOUTH AUSTRALIA A vvhole-of-government approach RODIN GENOFF AND GRAHAM SHEATHER INTRODUCTION Both Aristotle and Newton believed in absolute time....they used a good clock. Time was completely separate and independent of space. This is what people would take to be the commonsense view. However, we have...

...motion."13 "Time, said Newton, "was independent of man; it flowed by itself."14 Using a good clock "Both Aristotle and Newton believed in absolute time....same whoever measured it, provided they used a good clock."15 Until philosopher Immanual Kant (1724-1804) suggested otherwise, common sense assumed time...

...temporal model. As Hawking ( 1 988, p. 1 8) explains, Newton believed in absolute time. That is, [he| believed that one could unambiguously measure the...between two events, and that this time would be the same for whoever measured it, provided they used a good clock. Consequently, for Newton, time serves as...