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A Simple Minkowskian Time-Travel Spacetime

2024/12/20 by John D. Norton, Norton, John D.
Physics and Astronomy · #Relativity and Gravitational Theory #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Quantum Electrodynamics and Casimir Effect

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2412.16272

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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