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=== Illusory time === Consideration of the possibility of backward time travel in a hypothetical universe described by a [[Gödel metric]] led famed logician [[Kurt Gödel]] to assert that time might itself be a sort of illusion.<ref name="Yourgrau">{{cite book |last1=Yourgrau |first1=Palle |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GtY907BlhxYC&q=2005+A+World+Without+Time:+The+Forgotten+Legacy+of+G%C3%B6del+and+Einstein&pg=PA134 |title=A World Without Time: The Forgotten Legacy of Godel and Einstein |date=4 March 2009 |publisher=Basic Books |isbn=9780786737000 |location=New York |page=134 |access-date=December 18, 2017}}</ref><ref name="holt">{{cite magazine |last=Holt |first=Jim |date=2005-02-21 |title=Time Bandits |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2005/02/28/time-bandits-2 |magazine=The New Yorker |access-date=2017-12-13}}</ref> He suggests something along the lines of the [[Eternalism (philosophy of time)|block time]] view, in which time is just another dimension like space, with all events at all times being fixed within this four-dimensional "block".{{Citation needed|date=September 2016}}
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