The paper shows the standard definition of time at a distance to be beset with ambiguities that may be solved by making a fresh start taking its point of departure in the idea of a cosmic time as proposed by the British tradition of relativistic cosmology.
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“This paper is written in honour of Franco Selleri, faithful defender of reason in physics, who committed his efforts to “the liberation of time from the enslavement to space.”
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Wegener, M. The Idea of a Cosmic Time. Found Phys 34, 1777–1799 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10701-004-1316-z
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