A simple Minkowskian time-travel spacetime

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.

Authors

John D. Norton (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0936-5308)

Institutions

University of Pittsburgh (US)

Publication Details

Journal: American Journal of Physics
Published: 2025-02-20
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1119/5.0224022
Primary Topic: Black Holes and Theoretical Physics
Type: article
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article

A simple Minkowskian time-travel spacetime

John D. Norton

Feb 20, 2025

American Journal of Physics

Black Holes and Theoretical Physics

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A simple Minkowskian time-travel spacetime

John D. Norton

February 20, 2025article en

Abstract

American Journal of PhysicsVol. 93(3)

University of Pittsburgh (US)

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Black Holes and Theoretical Physics

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