In order to ponder the question of (space) time, we consider exotic spacetimes in the sense of differential geometry, and then present undecidability and incompleteness results about general relativity, with the nature of time and the existence of some kind of "cosmic time" as central questions. We conclude with a discussion on the possible interpretation of our results.
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