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Time Travel: Why It May Not Pay to Work out All the Kinks
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 January 2022
Abstract
Here, we hypothesize that a smooth nongeodesic closed timelike curve is never most efficient with respect to total acceleration if a kink is permitted at the initial (terminal) point. We support our hypothesis in a variety of ways. Most notably, we show Malament's opposing conjecture concerning Gödel space-time to be false.
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I wish to thank the Southern California Philosophy of Physics Group and especially David Malament for helpful discussion.
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