From: sci.math on
We are mmersed in time, like buoys bobbing in a separate flowing
medium. We are not talking about three-dimensional, spatial entities,
as in the familiar pattern of English thought and expression. Rather,
such usages depict entities as processes or events ('eventities'); as
inherently active substances into which a temporal content enters as
an essential ingredient. Entities are conceived here as being part of
concrete duration -- part of the very fabric of the space-time
continuum. Such 'eventities' have a finite, lawfully determinate
'length' in time too, as well as in the three mutually perpendicular
spatial dimensions, four-dimensional solids, not to three-dlmensional
ones; to space-time objects