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Matter Times

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Part of the book series: Fundamental Theories of Physics ((FTPH,volume 190))

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This brief chapter further delineates the notion of matter times (introduced in Chaps. 9 and 12), whether by just using a matter variable as time or by introducing specific ‘reference fluid’ matter.

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Anderson, E. (2017). Matter Times. In: The Problem of Time. Fundamental Theories of Physics, vol 190. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-58848-3_22

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