timelike curve

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curve
noun[C]
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a line that bends continuously and has no ...
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Such a configuration of wormholes would allow for a particle's world line to form a closed loop in spacetime, known as a closedtimelikecurve.
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This is the maximum possible length in time for atimelikecurvebut merely of stationary length for a spacelike curve.
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For atimelikecurve, the length formula gives the proper time along the curve.
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As we move further outward, we can see that horizontal circles with larger radii are closed timelike curves.
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Also, in general relativity, world lines are timelike curves in spacetime, where timelike curves fall within the lightcone.
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A timelike homotopy between two timelike curves is a homotopy such that each intermediate curve is timelike.
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Mathematically, the permissibility of time travel is represented by the existence of closed timelike curves.
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Being a timelike congruence, the timelike curves can't intersect, and so, the map is injective.
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This cosmology contained closed timelike curves; a signal or object starting from an event in such a universe could return to the same event.
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It may be possible to clone a quantum state to arbitrary accuracy in the presence of a closed timelike curves.
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These closed timelike curves are "not" timelike geodesics, so these paradoxical observers must "accelerate" to experience these effects.
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For example, a compact spacetime has closed timelike curves, which violate our usual ideas of causality (that is, future events could affect past ones).
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These objections to the existence of closed timelike curves are not universally accepted, however.
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In theory of relativity, arc-length of timelike curves (world lines) is the proper time elapsed along the world line.
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It is one of the simplest known exact solutions in general relativity, and is regarded as an important example, in part because it exhibits closed timelike curves.
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Mallett has some physical arguments that suggest that closed timelike curves would become possible through the center of a laser that has been twisted into a loop.
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