No it cannot be allowed, I cannot allow you to speak of the speed of time anymore than you can speak of dividing by zero or the merry witches dancing around their cauldrons on the other side of the big bang. Speed = distance / time.
If we multiply both sides by time we get speed * time = distance
And dividing by speed we get time = distance / speed
Substituting for speed we get time = distance / (distance / time)
And since when we divide by fractions we invert the divider and multiply we get time = distance * (time/distance)
Which is simply time = time.
Which proves that, well I am not sure. It took me better than a half hour to get that all worked out because damn it multiplying and dividing by fractions is hard. The problem is division. When you multiply an integer by another integer you always get an integer, but when you divide a integer by an integer most likely you will not get an integer you will get a frozen operation, and you will have to allow into your peaceable kingdom of integers those unruly rational numbers also known as fractions. I am already planning a Math Wednesday.
Anyway I was reading through Beagles' post about the ridiculous notion of time having a speed, and it got wackier and wackier and then I came across Cimrman, and where had I heard that word before? Of course that was the name of Beagles's imaginary polymath. Googling the man I discovered that other people had invented him and Beagles was just borrowing him which is perfectly ok. And one of the pages summoned was actually from The Institute itself. http://talkswithbeagles.blogspot.com/2018/12/the-legend-of-jara-cimrman.html
Can The Institute cite itself? Can time have a speed? Can you divide by zero? What are the witches singing across the great divide of the big bang?
This being Friday I was going to post another installment of The Draft, but the computer is not complying. So, be careful out there
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