English

Causality violating geodesics in Bonnor's rotating dust metric

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2008-12-18 v1

Abstract

We exhibit timelike geodesic paths for a metric, introduced by Bonnor [11] and considered also by Steadman [13], and show that coordinate time runs backward along a portion of these geodesics.

Cite

@article{arxiv.0811.2468,
  title  = {Causality violating geodesics in Bonnor's rotating dust metric},
  author = {Peter Collas and David Klein},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0811.2468},
  year   = {2008}
}
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