| | C'mon, give the kid a break. He probably meant "we can't check that time goes on because we would not be able to check our clocks."
Haha! : )
By the way, given enough time, pretty much anything that can be sensed with one sense could conceivably converted into another sense. So, as long as we have at least some type of senses, we can sense all senses.
Example:
Sight-> taste/smell/touch/hearing: take a picture, encode brightness of pixels into a series of tastes/smells/touches/sounds. In the case of taste/smell you could use multiple flavors in parallel, in the case of touch you could use a large area of skin with pressure and temperature, with hearing you could use speaker positions and sounds at various frequencies, or convert to language. After a while (especially if the user is young) they will be able to use the sensory converted sight as well as the volume/resolution of information they get through the device.
Things we don't directly sense, but can measure and convert to our senses:
Magnetic fields, other frequencies of the electromagnetic spectrum than visible light, other frequencies of sound, gravity, atomic forces, anything else?
Oh yea, and "time" is simply a measure of how much Reality has changed, most useful when measuring the changes of a part of Reality that changes predictably and periodically. One could use whether or not they feel the heat of the sun on their skin for a measure of time, although its only accurate to maybe +-2 hours during the day, and +-4 hours during the night.
(Edited by Dean Michael Gores
on 4/02, 1:53pm)
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