Must time machines be unstable against vacuum fluctuations?

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/13/9/019MaRDI QIDQ4894750zbMATHOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Li-Xin Li

Publication date 7 October 1996

Published in Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9703024

zbMATH Keywords

closed timelike curveschronology protection conjecturequantum vacuum fluctuationspacetime with time machines

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20) Space-time singularities, cosmic censorship, etc. (83C75)

Abstract: In the appearance of absorption material, the quantum vacuum fluctuations of all kinds of fields may be smoothed out and the spacetime with time machine may be stable against vacuum fluctuations. The chronology protection conjecture might break down, and the anti-chronology protection conjecture might hold: There is no law of physics preventing the appearance of closed timelike curves.

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