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- Title
CLOSED TIMELIKE CURVES IN CLASSICAL RELATIVITY.
- Authors
Bonnor, W. B.
- Abstract
Spacetimes of general relativity containing closed timelike curves (CTC) are usually dismissed as non-physical. However, it is now known that CTC may appear in spacetimes modelling simple laboratory experiments, and two such experiments are described in this essay. We therefore need a realistic interpretation of CTC. I suggest that a region containing CTC may represent a new type of singularity, called a torsion singularity.
- Subjects
GENERAL relativity (Physics); PHYSICS; QUANTUM gravity; ASTROPHYSICS
- Publication
International Journal of Modern Physics D: Gravitation, Astrophysics & Cosmology, 2003, Vol 12, Issue 9, p1705
- ISSN
0218-2718
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1142/S0218271803004122