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19 - Limits of Time in Cosmology

from Part V - Methodological and Philosophical Issues

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 April 2017

Svend E. Rugh
Affiliation:
Foundations of Physics, Copenhagen, Denmark
Henrik Zinkernagel
Affiliation:
University of Granada, Spain
Khalil Chamcham
Affiliation:
University of Oxford
Joseph Silk
Affiliation:
University of Oxford
John D. Barrow
Affiliation:
University of Cambridge
Simon Saunders
Affiliation:
University of Oxford
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