Back-in-Time and Faster-than-Light Travel in General Relativity

• Main Author: Krasnikov, Serguei (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Fundamental Theories of Physics, 193
• Subjects: Gravitation.; Cosmology.; Philosophy of nature.; Physics.; Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory.; Philosophy of Nature.; History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics.

For the past 20 years causality violations and superluminal motion have been the object of intensive study as physical and geometrical phenomena. This book compiles the results of its author and also reviews other work in the field. In particular, the following popular questions are addressed:  Is c...

Table of Contents:

• I Classical Treatment: Geometrical Introduction.- Physical Predilections.- Shortcuts.- Time Machines.- No-Go Theorem.- Time Travel Paradoxes
• II Semiclassical Effects: Quantum Corrections.- Quantum Restrictions.- Primordial Wormhole.- At and Beyond the Horizon
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