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> But as ...

I confess. I literally had no idea what you were intending to convey with those two sentences so I restated alternatively what I intended to convey in the hope it might make clear my position (if that was an issue for you) or that I might learn more from your response.

> Where do you think you're contradicting me?

That's not a thought that I thunk. Therefore I have no response.

> But the plane is not located at any point in the 4-dimensional space

Every point along the 4D path trajectory of the plane in {X,Y,Z,T} is a literal {X,Y,Z} location of that plane at time T.

> Both of those things are required before you can describe the plane as "moving" within the space.

I certainly did not describe the plane as "moving" within R^4.

> There is no secret backup time that will allow you to track the plane's hypothetical motion along an explicit time dimension.

I utterly fail to understand what you intend to convey here.

Although I note that the actual (not hypothetical) velocity of the plane projected onto the time axis is very likely to be on the order of approximately one second per second.




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