Raju, C. K. (2005) Time Travel and the Reality of Spontaneity. [Preprint]
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Abstract
Contrary to the informed consensus, time travel implies spontaneity (as distinct from chance) so that time travel can only be of the second kind.
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| Additional Information: | This is a revised version of a paper first submitted for publication to Foundations of Physics in 1996. The paper received favourable reviews, but the minor revision suggested by a referee was somehow not carried out for a decade! |
| Keywords: | time travel, arrow of time, spontaneity, indeterminism, backward causation |
| Subjects: | General Issues > Causation Specific Sciences > Physics > Relativity Theory General Issues > Determinism/Indeterminism |
| Depositing User: | C. K. Raju |
| Date Deposited: | 26 Aug 2005 |
| Last Modified: | 07 Oct 2010 11:13 |
| Item ID: | 2416 |
| URI: | http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/2416 |
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