alt Hacker News> If we say that seconds "pass", at what rate do they pass?
One second per second for yourself, but other observers generally disagree.
Or one could use it as an inverse of the things measured against time, so meters/second of speed can be turned into seconds flowing at a rate of length.
Does "miles per gallon" lead to similar questions about gallons passing?
> Could they pass at some rate other than one second per second?
Only, and always, from the point of view of people in different frames of reference.
You're talking about something else. Or rather, my line of argument ran into a distraction hazard, namely relativity. I wasn't trying to talk about relativity, but I should have seen that coming. And now everybody's very keen to explain relativity to me, dammit.