In particular, the participants set out to identify researchers and other qualified personnel from different Andean countries, who could form the nucleus of a Working Group on Snow and Ice within the framework of an Andean-FRIEND (Andean - Flow Regimes from International Experimental and Network Data).

UNESCO: Valdivia, Chile, 2003

Short of actually starting a Big Bang and letting it grow into a new universe, this is probably the closest we can get to studying the flow of time in an experimental fashion.

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