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A comparison of a recent paper by Giora Hon in this journal with a book I wrote several years ago, on Gödel's philosophy of time, reveals that the substance, and indeed many of the words themselves, appearing in Hon's essay are in fact original to my book—the ideas of which he sadly failed to understand.
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Yourgrau, P. Comments on “Did Godel Surprise Einstein with a Rotating Universe and Time Travel?” by Giora Hon. Foundations of Physics 28, 1719–1727 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1018849827437
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