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Letter: Sequence of time

Published 17 July 2013

From Sebastian Hayes

It is silly of (some) physicists to claim “there is no time” (15 June, p 34). Physicists, like the rest of us, experience life sequentially: they are born, grow up, die, read this line before the next.

If mathematical physics does not recognise sequence, well, so much the worse for mathematical physics. As for mathematical physicists, they can stew in their own mathematical juice.

Shaftesbury, Dorset, UK

Issue no. 2926 published 20 July 2013

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