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An issue about the compactness and the existence of CTCs
There is a well known fact that a compact spacetime necessarily contains a closed timelike curve (CTC). Proof can be found in several books on GR (e.g. Hawking, Ellis, Proposition 6.4.2), and in ...
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The order of seeing event in different spacetimes
Assume this question:
Three events A, B, C are seen by observer O to occur in the order ABC. Another observer O$^\prime$ sees the events to occur in the order CBA. Is it possible that a third ...
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According to General Relativity, Does The Past "Exist"?
I'm curious about just what is meant by time being another dimension, like the three (observable) spatial dimensions. Does this imply, according to General Relativity, that the past and the future ...
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Why should one expect closed timelike curves to be impossible in quantum gravity?
From the Wikipedia article, it seems that physicists tend to view closed timelike curves as an undesirable attribute of a solution to the Einstein Field Equations. Hawking formulated the Chronology ...
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Example of space-like intervals in spacetime
From wikipedia:
When a space-like interval separates
two events, not enough time passes
between their occurrences for there to
exist a causal relationship crossing
the spatial distance ...
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