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FQXi FORUM: Essay Contest

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Things Happen by Jim George Snowdon
1 post  •  Dec. 4, 2008 @ 09:02 GMT
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Time Is Local by Sandra E. Baron
1 post  •  Dec. 3, 2008 @ 11:56 GMT
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Time: the view from ordinary shoulders by Peter Alexander Cunningham
1 post  •  Dec. 3, 2008 @ 10:05 GMT
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Possible Simultaneous Times by Florina Manuela Pirvulescu
3 posts  •  Dec. 3, 2008 @ 10:04 GMT
0 restricted votes • < 10 public votes

The Foundation of Physics and the Explanation of Time by Gerry L. Klein
2 posts  •  Dec. 3, 2008 @ 10:04 GMT
0 restricted votes • < 10 public votes

Revolution in the Understanding of Space-Time: A Project by Buck Field
4 posts  •  Dec. 3, 2008 @ 10:04 GMT
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The Reasonable Ineffectiveness of Mathematics in Capturing the Nature of Time. by Dirk Vertigan
4 posts  •  Dec. 3, 2008 @ 10:04 GMT
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Quantum Measurement as an Arrow of Time by Curtis Vinson
1 post  •  Dec. 3, 2008 @ 10:04 GMT
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Time by Mar Vas
1 post  •  Dec. 3, 2008 @ 10:04 GMT
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Speculation Regarding a Limited Role in the Universe for (Space-)Time by Jud Fink
1 post  •  Dec. 3, 2008 @ 10:03 GMT
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The Riddle of Time: R = t by L Riofrio
10 posts  •  Dec. 2, 2008 @ 14:46 GMT
1 restricted vote • < 10 public votes

The Case for Absolute Time by Randall B Floit
3 posts  •  Dec. 2, 2008 @ 14:45 GMT
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The Production of Time by Adam Daniel Helfer
5 posts  •  Dec. 2, 2008 @ 14:43 GMT
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The rediscovery of time through its disappearance by Alexis de Saint-Ours
1 post  •  Dec. 2, 2008 @ 14:41 GMT
0 restricted votes • < 10 public votes

What Is Time? by Gregory Keaton
4 posts  •  Dec. 2, 2008 @ 14:40 GMT
0 restricted votes • < 10 public votes

Weakening Gravity's Grip on the Arrow of Time by Maulik Parikh
2 posts  •  Dec. 2, 2008 @ 14:36 GMT
2 restricted votes • < 10 public votes

Space does not exist, so time can. by Fotini Markopoulou
7 posts  •  Dec. 2, 2008 @ 14:34 GMT
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Time is not the problem. by Olaf Dreyer
5 posts  •  Dec. 2, 2008 @ 14:34 GMT
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Smaller than Planck time by Guenter Hauser
1 post  •  Dec. 2, 2008 @ 14:31 GMT
0 restricted votes • < 10 public votes

The physical nature of time by Sherman Loran Jenkins
1 post  •  Dec. 2, 2008 @ 14:27 GMT
0 restricted votes • < 10 public votes

Many Times by Steven Weinstein
2 posts  •  Dec. 2, 2008 @ 14:23 GMT
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The Nature of Time is Change by Matthew Joseph Waldman
2 posts  •  Dec. 2, 2008 @ 12:45 GMT
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Time as a Universal Scaling Principle by Lawrence B. Crowell
5 posts  •  Dec. 2, 2008 @ 10:56 GMT
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Let's benefit from special mathematics for elapsed time by Eckard Blumschein
5 posts  •  Dec. 2, 2008 @ 10:41 GMT
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Your Time and My Time and Time by Raghavendra Devaraya Prabhu
1 post  •  Dec. 2, 2008 @ 08:45 GMT
0 restricted votes • < 10 public votes

Deep quantum time by David Ritz Finkelstein
3 posts  •  Dec. 1, 2008 @ 17:02 GMT
0 restricted votes • < 10 public votes

Complex Time, Causality and the Anthropic Principal by James G Stanfield
3 posts  •  Dec. 1, 2008 @ 16:54 GMT
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Gravity: The Power Source of Entropic Time by Timothy E Faucett
4 posts  •  Dec. 1, 2008 @ 16:54 GMT
0 restricted votes • < 10 public votes

The Absoluteness of Time by James A. Putnam
1 post  •  Dec. 1, 2008 @ 14:21 GMT
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Time, TOEs, and UltraStructuralism by Dean Rickles
5 posts  •  Dec. 1, 2008 @ 14:21 GMT
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Is the notion of time really fundamental? by Florian Girelli
2 posts  •  Dec. 1, 2008 @ 14:21 GMT
1 restricted vote • < 10 public votes

On The Flow of Time by George F R Ellis
16 posts  •  Dec. 1, 2008 @ 14:20 GMT
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The Nature of Time by Julian Barbour
13 posts  •  Dec. 1, 2008 @ 14:20 GMT
1 restricted vote • < 10 public votes

Time and the Infinity Complex by Nicholas Dombrovskis
1 post  •  Dec. 1, 2008 @ 13:24 GMT
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The Nature of Time: Turning the Kaleidoscope by Ryan Sloan Westafer
8 posts  •  Dec. 1, 2008 @ 11:23 GMT
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Condensed matter lessons about the origin of time by Gil Jannes
4 posts  •  Dec. 1, 2008 @ 11:22 GMT
1 restricted vote • < 10 public votes

``What is (the) time?'' ``Get a clock, it will tell you!'' by Robert C Helling
1 post  •  Dec. 1, 2008 @ 11:18 GMT
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Can we change the past by forgetting? by Saibal Mitra
2 posts  •  Dec. 1, 2008 @ 11:18 GMT
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Time. On. Essay. An. by Julian Moore
3 posts  •  Dec. 1, 2008 @ 11:17 GMT
1 restricted vote • < 10 public votes

Relational Resolution of Time needs Many Worlds Interpretation with Small Probability Cutoff by Sascha Vongehr
1 post  •  Dec. 1, 2008 @ 11:03 GMT
0 restricted votes • < 10 public votes

Time as a product of motion by peter wamai wanjohi
1 post  •  Dec. 1, 2008 @ 10:55 GMT
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On the Non-Existence of Time by James E Tyson
2 posts  •  Dec. 1, 2008 @ 10:55 GMT
0 restricted votes • < 10 public votes

Measurement processes and cosmological emergence by Marni Dee Sheppeard
1 post  •  Dec. 1, 2008 @ 10:55 GMT
1 restricted vote • < 10 public votes

Time and Interpretation by Lambru Scoromide
2 posts  •  Dec. 1, 2008 @ 10:54 GMT
0 restricted votes • < 10 public votes

Time and Life: Testing a Tilt in the Arrow of Time by C. K. Raju
5 posts  •  Dec. 1, 2008 @ 10:54 GMT
0 restricted votes • < 10 public votes

Time and Reality of Worldtubes by Vesselin Petkov
2 posts  •  Dec. 1, 2008 @ 10:54 GMT
0 restricted votes • < 10 public votes

Temporal Platonic Metaphysics by Aleksandar Mikovic
1 post  •  Dec. 1, 2008 @ 10:54 GMT
0 restricted votes • < 10 public votes

Nature's Time Scale by Neil G. McCormick
1 post  •  Dec. 1, 2008 @ 10:53 GMT
0 restricted votes • < 10 public votes

The progression of time as a cosmological process by Johan Masreliez
3 posts  •  Dec. 1, 2008 @ 10:53 GMT
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Time According to dano by Daniel Joseph Kunau
3 posts  •  Dec. 1, 2008 @ 10:53 GMT
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The Drumming of Space-Time by Jean IBAR
1 post  •  Dec. 1, 2008 @ 10:53 GMT
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Time and Quantum - Musings about the Quantized Nature of Becoming by Chi Ming Hung
2 posts  •  Dec. 1, 2008 @ 10:53 GMT
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Electron time, mass and zitter by David Hestenes
9 posts  •  Dec. 1, 2008 @ 10:53 GMT
3 restricted votes • < 10 public votes

Time: The Anima of Being by William C Hagen
1 post  •  Dec. 1, 2008 @ 10:53 GMT
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Black Holes and Antimatter as the Convergence of Times by Joshua D Cuppett
2 posts  •  Dec. 1, 2008 @ 10:52 GMT
0 restricted votes • < 10 public votes

Whither Time's Arrow? by Gavin E Crooks
3 posts  •  Dec. 1, 2008 @ 10:52 GMT
0 restricted votes • < 10 public votes

There ain't nothing wrong with Time by Anders Bengtsson
2 posts  •  Dec. 1, 2008 @ 10:52 GMT
0 restricted votes • < 10 public votes

The Epiontic Principle, Time and the Laws of Physics by Luigi Acerbi
3 posts  •  Dec. 1, 2008 @ 10:52 GMT
0 restricted votes • < 10 public votes

Time, Space and Matter in the Relational Blockworld: A New Approach to the Problems of Time by Mark Stuckey
7 posts  •  Nov. 28, 2008 @ 12:46 GMT
0 restricted votes • < 10 public votes

The Theory of Time, Space and Gravitation by Robert D. Sadykov
3 posts  •  Nov. 28, 2008 @ 09:31 GMT
0 restricted votes • < 10 public votes

Reality - an emerging representation of the world by Martin A. Green
1 post  •  Nov. 28, 2008 @ 09:31 GMT
0 restricted votes • < 10 public votes

A Derivation of the Speed of Light Postulate by Armin Nikkhah Shirazi
2 posts  •  Nov. 28, 2008 @ 09:31 GMT
0 restricted votes • < 10 public votes

A Practical Experiment to Observe the Direction of Time. by Kenneth M. Sasaki.
1 post  •  Nov. 28, 2008 @ 09:31 GMT
0 restricted votes • < 10 public votes

Morphogenesis and dynamics of quantum state by Peter Leifer
1 post  •  Nov. 28, 2008 @ 09:31 GMT
0 restricted votes • < 10 public votes

A Wild Guess On Time by Martin Franz Traub
1 post  •  Nov. 28, 2008 @ 09:30 GMT
0 restricted votes • < 10 public votes

No Time for Quarks! by Franklin Potter
1 post  •  Nov. 28, 2008 @ 09:30 GMT
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One time is not enough by Petr Frish
1 post  •  Nov. 28, 2008 @ 09:30 GMT
0 restricted votes • < 10 public votes

Flowing with a Frozen River by Cristinel Stoica
36 posts  •  Nov. 26, 2008 @ 11:19 GMT
2 restricted votes • 79 public votes

Time and Causality by William R. Wharton
4 posts  •  Nov. 26, 2008 @ 11:18 GMT
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The Heuristic Significance of the Principle of General Relativity on the Nature of Time by Chris J Clyde
1 post  •  Nov. 25, 2008 @ 13:19 GMT
0 restricted votes • < 10 public votes

The Garden of Forking Paths: Time as an Expanding Labyrinth by Paul Halpern
11 posts  •  Nov. 25, 2008 @ 10:00 GMT
0 restricted votes • < 10 public votes

What if Time Really Exists? by Sean Carroll
29 posts  •  Nov. 24, 2008 @ 09:32 GMT
0 restricted votes • 14 public votes

About Time by Hsiung Chia Tze
2 posts  •  Nov. 24, 2008 @ 09:32 GMT
0 restricted votes • < 10 public votes

Nature of Time in Physical Theories by Suresh V Kamath
3 posts  •  Nov. 24, 2008 @ 09:07 GMT
0 restricted votes • < 10 public votes

Testing Two-Dimensional Time by Michael Alekseevich Popov
3 posts  •  Nov. 21, 2008 @ 10:18 GMT
0 restricted votes • < 10 public votes

Absolutely -The Nature of Time and Beyond? by Stephen J Abrahams
3 posts  •  Nov. 21, 2008 @ 10:17 GMT
0 restricted votes • < 10 public votes

Time: Arrow or Boomerang? by Kenneth Bruce Lucas
1 post  •  Nov. 21, 2008 @ 10:17 GMT
0 restricted votes • < 10 public votes

Lessons from the Block Universe by Ken Wharton
32 posts  •  Nov. 21, 2008 @ 10:16 GMT
0 restricted votes • < 10 public votes

On the comprehension of time in continuum mechanics by Alexandre Paradis
1 post  •  Nov. 19, 2008 @ 09:36 GMT
0 restricted votes • < 10 public votes

TIME PARADOXES by JOSE J CURIEL
3 posts  •  Nov. 19, 2008 @ 09:36 GMT
0 restricted votes • < 10 public votes

Is there a physical mechanism responsible for what we perceive as time? by Chris Kennedy
27 posts  •  Nov. 19, 2008 @ 09:36 GMT
0 restricted votes • < 10 public votes

Emergent Time from Non-Associative Quantum Theory by Jens Koeplinger
7 posts  •  Nov. 19, 2008 @ 09:36 GMT
0 restricted votes • 13 public votes

Time Traveling by Simuverses by Venerando Solis Barrado
7 posts  •  Nov. 17, 2008 @ 12:04 GMT
0 restricted votes • 13 public votes

Nature Of Time by Iacob Suteu
3 posts  •  Nov. 17, 2008 @ 12:04 GMT
0 restricted votes • < 10 public votes

A Coherent Space-Time Model Derived From Principles of Electric Current by Jerome Cantor
1 post  •  Nov. 17, 2008 @ 12:04 GMT
0 restricted votes • < 10 public votes

About the Nature of Time by Pierre Sabatier
1 post  •  Nov. 14, 2008 @ 15:30 GMT
0 restricted votes • < 10 public votes

What Makes Time Special by Craig Adam Callender
7 posts  •  Nov. 14, 2008 @ 15:30 GMT
0 restricted votes • 25 public votes

From time to timescape -- Einstein's unfinished revolution by David L. Wiltshire
8 posts  •  Nov. 14, 2008 @ 15:29 GMT
1 restricted vote • < 10 public votes

The Nature of Time: from a Timeless Hamiltonian Framework to Clock Time of Metrology by Enrico Prati
4 posts  •  Nov. 14, 2008 @ 15:29 GMT
1 restricted vote • 17 public votes

Informational Time by Gunn Alex Quznetsov
14 posts  •  Nov. 14, 2008 @ 15:29 GMT
0 restricted votes • < 10 public votes

Granular geometry of space-time as a result of Newtonian investgation strategy by Yuri Rylov
2 posts  •  Nov. 13, 2008 @ 08:59 GMT
0 restricted votes • < 10 public votes

On the Nature of Time - Or Why Does Nature Abhor Deadlocks? by Christine Cordula Dantas
12 posts  •  Nov. 13, 2008 @ 08:59 GMT
0 restricted votes • < 10 public votes

Fundamental Mechanics by Keith Clemens
1 post  •  Nov. 13, 2008 @ 08:59 GMT
0 restricted votes • < 10 public votes

An Overview of the Nature of Time by Brian Fraser
9 posts  •  Nov. 10, 2008 @ 14:45 GMT
0 restricted votes • < 10 public votes

Clock boundary principle with respect to the role of time in laws of physics and its application to special relativity by Srdjan Mijatovic
1 post  •  Nov. 10, 2008 @ 14:45 GMT
0 restricted votes • < 10 public votes

daerengD Time Paradigm by Brian Beverly
22 posts  •  Nov. 6, 2008 @ 11:14 GMT
0 restricted votes • 35 public votes

Constants of Nature, Dynamics of Time by Michael A. Sherbon
4 posts  •  Nov. 6, 2008 @ 11:14 GMT
0 restricted votes • 16 public votes

Quantum Pseudokinematics by Myke Stanbridge
6 posts  •  Nov. 5, 2008 @ 11:03 GMT
0 restricted votes • 57 public votes

Time Travel using hole teleportation by Constantin Zaharia Leshan
2 posts  •  Nov. 5, 2008 @ 10:43 GMT
1 restricted vote • < 10 public votes

Square Wheels Or Real Dynamics? by François Xavier Le Rouge
6 posts  •  Nov. 4, 2008 @ 12:59 GMT
1 restricted vote • < 10 public votes

The gravitation and thermodynamics by Alexander Fedorovich Silin
5 posts  •  Nov. 3, 2008 @ 10:38 GMT
0 restricted votes • < 10 public votes

Philosophical Quest for the Reality of Time by Sidi Cherkawi Benzahra
2 posts  •  Nov. 3, 2008 @ 10:38 GMT
0 restricted votes • < 10 public votes

Making Time With Pretty Girls and Hot Stoves by Don Limuti
4 posts  •  Nov. 3, 2008 @ 10:38 GMT
0 restricted votes • < 10 public votes

Stochastic Time and Temporal Non-locality by Toru Ohira
25 posts  •  Oct. 30, 2008 @ 10:34 GMT
2 restricted votes • < 10 public votes

The direction of time in quantum field theory by Peter Morgan
21 posts  •  Oct. 27, 2008 @ 09:12 GMT
0 restricted votes • < 10 public votes

This Time - What a Strange Turn of Events by Philip Gibbs
29 posts  •  Oct. 21, 2008 @ 09:19 GMT
1 restricted vote • < 10 public votes

Why Does Time “Flow” but Space Is? Answers in Evolution and Cognition by Harry E. Foundalis
1 post  •  Oct. 21, 2008 @ 09:19 GMT
0 restricted votes • < 10 public votes

Instants, inertia and quantum motion by Shan Gao
10 posts  •  Oct. 14, 2008 @ 10:42 GMT
0 restricted votes • < 10 public votes

Time counts. by Thomas Howard Ray
8 posts  •  Oct. 13, 2008 @ 09:42 GMT
0 restricted votes • < 10 public votes

Nature of Time by Nainan K Varghese
1 post  •  Oct. 13, 2008 @ 09:42 GMT
0 restricted votes • < 10 public votes

Some Thoughts on Time by Matthew P. Kolasinski
16 posts  •  Oct. 13, 2008 @ 09:42 GMT
0 restricted votes • < 10 public votes

On the global existence of time by Ettore Minguzzi
2 posts  •  Oct. 13, 2008 @ 09:42 GMT
1 restricted vote • 20 public votes

Relations between Space-time, Gravity and Consciousness by Amrit Srecko Sorli
1 post  •  Oct. 10, 2008 @ 11:30 GMT
0 restricted votes • < 10 public votes

A Mystic Dream of Four by Douglas Bundy
123 posts  •  Oct. 10, 2008 @ 11:30 GMT
1 restricted vote • 47 public votes

Does time exist in quantum gravity? by Claus Kiefer
16 posts  •  Oct. 6, 2008 @ 11:38 GMT
2 restricted votes • 13 public votes

The Nature of Time by Christopher Randall Brown
6 posts  •  Oct. 6, 2008 @ 11:37 GMT
0 restricted votes • < 10 public votes

About the Nature of Time by Matti Juhani Pitkänen
16 posts  •  Oct. 2, 2008 @ 09:21 GMT
0 restricted votes • 10 public votes

The Physical Nature Of Time by Paul N Butler
28 posts  •  Sep. 30, 2008 @ 08:36 GMT
0 restricted votes • < 10 public votes

Block time: Why many physicists still don't accept it? by Hrvoje Nikolic
45 posts  •  Sep. 24, 2008 @ 13:06 GMT
0 restricted votes • 10 public votes

Mysteries of the Universe- a perspective by Narendra Nath
36 posts  •  Sep. 24, 2008 @ 11:59 GMT
0 restricted votes • 19 public votes

The Here-and-Now by Clinton Kyle Miller
62 posts  •  Sep. 23, 2008 @ 13:33 GMT
0 restricted votes • 34 public votes

On the nature of Time by Malcolm Macleod
1 post  •  Sep. 17, 2008 @ 13:39 GMT
0 restricted votes • < 10 public votes

Time in 3D by Harrison Saunders
1 post  •  Sep. 17, 2008 @ 13:35 GMT
0 restricted votes • < 10 public votes

Time, Consciousness, and the Subjective Universe by Daegene Song
7 posts  •  Sep. 10, 2008 @ 09:41 GMT
0 restricted votes • 12 public votes

On the Origin of Time by Rowan GRIGG
6 posts  •  Sep. 10, 2008 @ 09:36 GMT
0 restricted votes • < 10 public votes

Free will, undecidability, and the problem of time in quantum gravity by Rodolfo Gambini
9 posts  •  Sep. 10, 2008 @ 09:33 GMT
1 restricted vote • 24 public votes

E8 Time by Frank Dodd Smith
2 posts  •  Sep. 5, 2008 @ 11:41 GMT
0 restricted votes • < 10 public votes

Density Operators and Time by Carl A Brannen
8 posts  •  Sep. 2, 2008 @ 14:43 GMT
2 restricted votes • < 10 public votes

Motivation for a Biophysical Metamathematics via Multiply Connected Phase Space by Robert C Arnold
1 post  •  Aug. 27, 2008 @ 17:40 GMT
0 restricted votes • < 10 public votes

Ultimate Reality and Nonmaterial Origin Of Universe by Prem Nath Tiwari
30 posts  •  Aug. 25, 2008 @ 18:38 GMT
0 restricted votes • 80 public votes

Time for a Change - The Instantaneous, Present and the Existence of Time by Peter Lynds
25 posts  •  Aug. 25, 2008 @ 18:38 GMT
1 restricted vote • 28 public votes

Explaining Time by John Brodix Merryman
10 posts  •  Aug. 25, 2008 @ 18:38 GMT
0 restricted votes • < 10 public votes

Time as an Emergent Phenomenon: Traveling Back to the Heroic Age of Physics by Elliot McGucken
152 posts  •  Aug. 25, 2008 @ 18:38 GMT
0 restricted votes • 52 public votes

"Forget time" by Carlo Rovelli
73 posts  •  Aug. 25, 2008 @ 18:36 GMT
3 restricted votes • 64 public votes

Nature of Time by John Daniel Barrett
1 post  •  Aug. 25, 2008 @ 18:36 GMT
0 restricted votes • < 10 public votes

Time Complementarity in the Inflaton Spacetime Model by Richard P Dolan
2 posts  •  Aug. 25, 2008 @ 18:36 GMT
0 restricted votes • 25 public votes

Nature of time by Ralf Hofmann
2 posts  •  Aug. 25, 2008 @ 18:36 GMT
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