Wormholes, Time Machines, and the Weak Energy Condition

Morris, M.S.; Thorne, K.S.; Yurtsever, U.

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.61.1446

Wormholes, Time Machines, and the Weak Energy Condition

1988

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Phys.Rev.Lett. 61 (1988) 1446-1449

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10.1103/PhysRevLett.61.1446

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It is argued that, if the laws of physics permit an advanced civilization to create and maintain a wormhole in space for interstellar travel, then that wormhole can be converted into a time machine with which causality might be violatable. Whether wormholes can be created and maintained entails deep, ill-understood issues about cosmic censorship, quantum gravity, and quantum field theory, including the question of whether field theory enforces an averaged version of the weak energy condition.

FIELD THEORY: SPACE-TIME
QUANTUM GRAVITY
ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD: VACUUM STATE
EFFECT: CASIMIR
FIELD THEORY: CAUSALITY
EFFECT: TOPOLOGICAL

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