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Letter: Saving time

Published 20 November 2013

From Angus Martin

In Michael Slezak’s article on time, what a delight to find cosmologist George Ellis arguing that “the passage of time [is] one of the most fundamental features of daily life” and “the whole process of doing science depends on time rolling on” (2 November, p 34).

If physics thinks it has killed time, good luck to it. As a simple biologist, I heave a sigh of relief at Ellis’s statement.
Camberwell, Victoria, Australia

Issue no. 2944 published 23 November 2013

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