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...

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Published in:	Philosophy of Science Vol. 78; no. 5; pp. 1037 - 1046
Main Author:	Manchak, John Byron
Format:	Article
Published:	Cambridge University Press Dec2011
Subjects:	Spacetime Time travel G-spaces Philosophy of science Gödel's theorem
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost

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Summary:	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.