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(2017) Space, time and the limits of human understanding, Dordrecht, Springer.
This article offers the nonstandard or "hyperreal" line as a model for Time, thereby to resolve a persistent controversy of the meaning of "Now." As a "monad" in the Leibnitzian time axis, "Now" is a time interval shorter than any standard positive interval, yet longer than any infinitesimal.
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-44418-5_21
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Hersh, R. (2017)., "Now" has an infinitesimal positive duration, in S. Wuppuluri & G. Ghirardi (eds.), Space, time and the limits of human understanding, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 271-277.
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