Les,<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><br>
In a startling discovery made earlier today by musician and self-described ChucKist "Kassen", it was revealed that negative time actually exists. </blockquote><div><br><br>I don't think it does.. but you can have negative durations and LiSa may end up with a negative duration indicating her .playPos(), which was what I was investigating. There isn't the slightest problem with negative durations. You can add them, you can subtract them, you just can't advance now by them but they may be useful in other contexts, for example to indicate a timing offset that may be in either direction. Shuffle might be expressed as such a offset.<br>
<br>"Five hours ago we met" and "The movie will start in three minutes" are both fine sentences yet they refer to durations (as offsets to "now") in different directions, so I'd say we are fine with negative durations in natural language as well; "She was five minutes late" may be a even more clear example, with "late" expressing the sign.<br>
<br>Sorry to be so factual at your (great) humorous post but I'm really tired right now, that would also explain why I haven't yet gotten back to you on your personal mails. Rest asured I'll be doing something with that material.<br>
<br>Regular silliness will resume tomorrow.<br><br>Yours,<br>Kas.<br><br>P.S: aren't bees and dragonfly's bugs that can fly backwards?<br></div></div><br>