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There is a story about a Russian poet on the streets of London without a watch who was struck by an irresistible urge to know what time it was. So he went up to a man on the street and asked in his foreign English, “What’s time?” The man looked very surprised and replied, “But that’s a philosophical question. Why ask me?”
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Goswami, A. (2000). The Relativity of Time. In: The Physicists’ View of Nature, Part 1. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-1227-1_15
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