Hyperfast travel in general relativity
- 15 April 1998
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review D
- Vol. 57 (8) , 4760-4766
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.57.4760
Abstract
The problem is discussed of whether a traveler can reach a remote object and return sooner than a photon would when taking into account that the traveler can partly control the geometry of his world. It is argued that under some reasonable assumptions in globally hyperbolic space-times the traveler cannot hasten reaching the destination. Nevertheless, it is perhaps possible for the traveler to make an arbitrarily long round-trip within an arbitrarily short (from the point of view of a terrestrial observer) time.Keywords
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