Norton, John D. (2024) A Simple Minkowskian Time-Travel Spacetime. [Preprint]

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Abstract

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.

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Item Type:	Preprint
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID Norton, John D. jdnorton@pitt.edu 0000-0003-0936-5308
Additional Information:	American Journal of Physics, forthcoming
Keywords:	conical, singularity, spacetime, time travel
Subjects:	Specific Sciences > Physics > Relativity Theory
Depositing User:	John Norton
Date Deposited:	21 Dec 2024 13:36
Last Modified:	21 Dec 2024 13:36
Item ID:	24440
Subjects:	Specific Sciences > Physics > Relativity Theory
Date:	20 December 2024
URI:	https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/24440

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