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Timelike homotopy — On a Lorentzian manifold, certain curves are distinguished as timelike. A timelike homotopy between two timelike curves is a homotopy such that each intermediate curve is timelike. No closed timelike curve (CTC) on a Lorentzian manifold is… … Wikipedia
Timelike simply connected — Suppose a Lorentzian manifold contains a closed timelike curve (CTC). No CTC can be continuously deformed as a CTC (is timelike homotopic) to a point, as that point would not be causally well behaved. Therefore, any Lorentzian manifold containing … Wikipedia
Timelike Infinity — Infobox Book name = Timelike Infinity title orig = translator = author = Stephen Baxter cover artist = country = Great Britain language = English series = Xeelee Sequence genre = Science fiction publisher = Voyager (UK) release date = 7 December… … Wikipedia
Timelike topological feature — No closed timelike curve (CTC) on a Lorentzian manifold can be continuously deformed as a CTC to a point, because Lorentzian manifolds are locally causally well behaved. Every CTC must pass through some topological feature which prevents it from… … Wikipedia
Closed timelike curve — In mathematical physics, a closed timelike curve (CTC) is a worldline in a Lorentzian manifold, of a material particle in spacetime that is closed, returning to its starting point. This possibility was first raised by Kurt Gödel in 1949, who… … Wikipedia
closed timelike curve — noun A worldline that returns to its starting point … Wiktionary
Congruence (general relativity) — In general relativity, a congruence (more properly, a congruence of curves) is the set of integral curves of a (nowhere vanishing) vector field in a four dimensional Lorentzian manifold which is interpreted physically as a model of spacetime.… … Wikipedia
Causal structure — This article is about the possible causal relationships among points in a Lorentzian manifold. For classification of Lorentzian manifolds according to the types of causal structures they admit, see Causality conditions. In mathematical physics,… … Wikipedia
Novikov self-consistency principle — The Novikov self consistency principle, also known as the Novikov self consistency conjecture, is a principle developed by Russian physicist Igor Dmitriyevich Novikov in the mid 1980s to solve the problem of paradoxes in time travel, which is… … Wikipedia
Minkowski space — A diagram of Minkowski space, showing only two of the three spacelike dimensions. For spacetime graphics, see Minkowski diagram. In physics and mathematics, Minkowski space or Minkowski spacetime (named after the mathematician Hermann Minkowski)… … Wikipedia
