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First edition, 2015

An excerpt from Spooky Action at a Distance originally appeared, in slightly different form, in Scientific American.

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Musser, George.

    Spooky action at a distance: the phenomenon that reimagines space and time: and what it means for black holes, the big bang, and theories of everything / George Musser. — First edition.

        pages   cm

    Includes bibliographical references and index.

    ISBN 978-0-374-29851-7 (hardcover) — ISBN 978-0-374-71355-3 (e-book)

    1.  Space and time—Philosophy.   2.  Relativity (Physics)   I.  Title.

QC173.59.S65 M88 2015

530.11—dc23

2015010155

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