Compact spaces and privileged times; what the video game asteroids can teach us about the present.

The A-Theory of time has long struggled with the results of special relativity. One proposed solution is to stipulate the existence of a physically or metaphysically privileged frame which defines the global present for all observers. Recently this proposal has cropped up in literature on spatially...

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Publicado en:Synthese Vol. 202; no. 5; pp. 1 - 19
Autor principal: Thresher, Ann C.
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Springer Nature Nov2023
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