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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

John Byron Manchak
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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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Research Article
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Philosophy of Science , Volume 78 , Issue 5 , December 2011 , pp. 1037 - 1045
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Copyright © The Philosophy of Science Association

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Footnotes

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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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