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According to the Minkowski space-time representation the passage of time does not fit into the objective world. Rather the physical world is represented like a map, which contains all the world-lines of all material particles, including photons, which define the boundaries of the light cones. The light cones then give rise to the distinction between time-like, space-like and null-like connections.
The running away of the galaxies does not mean that they have a kind of aversion from us.
(Eddington 1935: 210)
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Weinert, F. (2016). The Evolution of the Universe. In: The Demons of Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31708-3_24
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