An obstacle to building a time machine

DOI10.1103/PHYSREVLETT.68.263MaRDI QIDQ4492009zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Sean M. Carroll, Edward Farhi, Alan H. Guth

Publication date 16 July 2000

Published in Physical Review Letters (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.68.263

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Space-time singularities, cosmic censorship, etc. (83C75)

Recommendations

• Physical obstacles to time-travel
• Constructing Time Machines
• Gott time machines in anti-de Sitter space
• Must time-machine construction violate the weak energy condition?
• On the classical stability of a time machine

Cites work

• Closed timelike curves produced by pairs of moving cosmic strings: Exact solutions
• Einstein's theory in a three-dimensional space-time
• Non-perturbative 2 particle scattering amplitudes in 2+1 dimensional quantum gravity
• Physical cosmic strings do not generate closed timelike curves
• Singularities and causality violation
• Three-particle solutions in (2+1)-dimensional gravity

Cited in

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• Massive spin-2 scattering and asymptotic superluminality
• Gott time machines in anti-de Sitter space
• Gravity and the Poincaré group
• EXACT RESULTS FOR THE BTZ BLACK HOLE
• Physical obstacles to time-travel
• Constructing Time Machines
• Must time-machine construction violate the weak energy condition?
• Gott Time Machines, BTZ Black Hole Formation, and Choptuik Scaling

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