id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_ix4gtr662rarph223t52nqb4zq John Byron Manchak On Gödel and the Ideality of Time 2016 9 .pdf application/pdf 4989 548 81 We begin with a few preliminaries concerning the relevant background formalism of general relativity.1 An n-dimensional, relativistic space-time (for n ≥ 2) is a pair of mathematical objects (M, gab), Following the literature (e.g., Earman 1995; Dorato 2002), we take the existence of a global time function to be a necessary (but not sufficient) condition rather a universe that fulfills all of the necessary conditions for an objective lapse of time." However, Earman does leave open the possibility that Let (M, gab) be any three-dimensional space-time (one can generalize to higher dimensions) and let O be any open set in M. Let (M, gab) be any three-dimensional space-time (one can generalize to higher dimensions) and let O be any open set in M. above, there is an open set Ô in O and a space-time (M, g00ab) such that g above, there is an open set Ô in O and a space-time (M, g00ab) such that g ./cache/work_ix4gtr662rarph223t52nqb4zq.pdf ./txt/work_ix4gtr662rarph223t52nqb4zq.txt