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Time as an emergent property

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Il Nuovo Cimento B (1971-1996)

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We suggest that time could be an emergent concept to be traced back to boundary conditions available in the primordial Universe (grand-unification regime). Ultimate entities could be hidden, as a primordial alphabet, in the foundations of the pyramid of complexity which could originate in these boundary conditions and seems to culminate in the phenomenon of consciousness and perception of time.

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  1. Département de Mathématiques, Université Blaise Pascal-Clermont Fd 2, 63177, Aubière Cedex, France

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Magnon, A. Time as an emergent property. Nuov Cim B 111, 381–386 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02724659

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