> hey,
>
> Kristee <kjseelna@students.wisc.edu> wrote:
> > My whole point is that today I was thinking how much every
> > kind of system we have depends on time, esp. science, and
> > that none of these could exist without it.
>
> Calculus (literally the mathematics of change) does indeed under lie the
> vast bulk of all of science, and it's an entire field of mathmatics unto
> itself. The most important change in science has always been time. It
> always puzzles me to think of what people did before Calculus was
> invented.
but (as I am sure you know) change does not have to be with respect to
time. Time is completely unnecessary to the use of calculus (although often
used).
-Paul Prestopnik