Causality violating geodesics in Bonnor's rotating dust metric (Q1768433)

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Causality violating geodesics in Bonnor's rotating dust metric
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    Causality violating geodesics in Bonnor's rotating dust metric (English)
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    15 March 2005
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    It is shown that for Bonnor's rotating dust metric there exist time-like geodesics where the coordinate time runs backwards along portions of these geodesics. Numerical examples for spatially bounded quasi-periodic and unbounded geodesics are given.
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    causality violations
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    Bonnor's rotating dust metric
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    time-like geodesics
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