Causality-Violating Lorentzian Manifolds Admitting a Shear-Free Timelike Flow (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9783832531867)

The Godel spacetime is an important cosmological solution of Einstein's field equations of gravitation. Although it does not offer a viable description of the physical universe, it illustrates the theoretical possibility of time travel. This work investigates world models similar to the Godel spacetime with particular emphasis on relations between kinematical properties (shear, vorticity, acceleration, expansion) and causality violation, i.e., the formation of closed timelike curves.

Author: Matthias Plaue
ISBN-10: 3832531866
ISBN-13: 9783832531867
Publisher: Logos Verlag Berlin
Language: English
Published: 07/18/2012
Pages: 111
Format: Paperback