Yet another time about time ... Part I: An essay on the phenomenology of physical time

Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology

Volumn 119, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 271-287

  Simeonov, Plamen L ^a  

^a JSRC   (Germany)

Author keywords

Consciousness; Mathematics; Phenomenology; Philosophy; Physics; Space; Time

Indexed keywords

PHILOSOPHY; PHYSICS; PROCEDURES; TIME;

PHILOSOPHY; PHYSICS; TIME;

EID: 84949236707     PISSN: 00796107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pbiomolbio.2015.08.015     Document Type: Review

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