From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751127AbVL2XP4 (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Dec 2005 18:15:56 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751116AbVL2XP4 (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Dec 2005 18:15:56 -0500 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([192.83.249.54]:44215 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751106AbVL2XPz (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Dec 2005 18:15:55 -0500 Message-ID: <43B46DBC.2050107@zytor.com> Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2005 15:14:04 -0800 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7-1.1.fc4 (X11/20050929) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Krzysztof Halasa CC: Andreas Ericsson , Junio C Hamano , Ingo Oeser , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Linus Torvalds , Benjamin Herrenschmidt , git@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] GIT 1.0.0b quickfix References: <7vpsnq3wrg.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <1135244363.10035.185.camel@gaston> <200512231712.40621.ioe-lkml@rameria.de> <7vu0cyu8vj.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <43AD2003.3060609@op5.se> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Krzysztof Halasa wrote: > > This is uncertain. If the time is quantified 5 hrs might as well contain > much less quanta than 3 kg, let alone 20 cm :-) You're forgetting that if time is quantized, it's as part of a general quantization of space-time. Thus, there would be as many quanta in 5 hrs as in 539,626,442,400,000 cm. -hpa