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A Simple Minkowskian Time-Travel Spacetime

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2024-12-24 v1

Abstract

This relativistic, time-travel spacetime is everywhere metrically flat, excepting a conical singularity. Observers following timelike geodesics can eventually encounter their past selves, aging in the opposite time sense. The spacetime is not time-orientable.

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@article{arxiv.2412.16272,
  title  = {A Simple Minkowskian Time-Travel Spacetime},
  author = {John D. Norton},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2412.16272},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

American Journal of Physics, forthcoming

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