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From Relativity to Gravitational Collapse; and from the Consequences of Collapse to the Principle that Nature Conserves Nothing
‘…the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time.’ T. S. Eliot1
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Wheeler, J.A. (1973). From Relativity to Mutability. In: Mehra, J. (eds) The Physicist’s Conception of Nature. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-2602-4_9
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