Time Travel: Why It May Not Pay to Work out All the Kinks.
Here, we hypothesize that a smooth nongeodesic closed timelike curve is never most efficient with respect to total acceleration if a kink is permitted at the initial (terminal) point. We support our hypothesis in a variety of ways. Most notably, we show Malament's opposing conjecture concerning Göde...
| Publicado en: | Philosophy of Science Vol. 78; no. 5; pp. 1037 - 1046 |
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Cambridge University Press
Dec2011
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| Sumario: | Here, we hypothesize that a smooth nongeodesic closed timelike curve is never most efficient with respect to total acceleration if a kink is permitted at the initial (terminal) point. We support our hypothesis in a variety of ways. Most notably, we show Malament's opposing conjecture concerning Gödel space-time to be false. |
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