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ENERGY CONDITIONS AND THEIR COSMOLOGICAL IMPLICATIONS

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VISSER, MATT, BARCELÓ, CARLOS·2000·COSMO-99

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The energy conditions of general relativity permit one to deduce very powerful and general theorems about the behaviour of strong gravitational fields and cosmological geometries. However, the energy conditions these theorems are based on are beginning to look a lot less secure than they once seemed: (1) there are subtle quantum effects that violate all of the energy conditions, and more tellingly (2), there are also relatively benign looking classical systems that violate all the energy conditions. This opens up a Pandora's box of rather disquieting possibilities --- everything from negative asymptotic mass, to traversable wormholes, to warp drives, up to and including time machines.

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  1. [1]1. S.W. Hawking and G.F.R. Ellis, The large scale structure of spacetime , (Cambridge University Press, England, 1973).
  2. [3]3. M. Visser, Lorentzian wormholes , (AIP Press, New York, 1995).

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Authors
VISSER, M., & BARCELÓ, C.
Affiliations
Washington University in St. Louis (US)
Venue
COSMO-99
Published
2000-09
Pages
98-112
OpenAlex
W1991643037
Cited by
168
References
3
Citations by year
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FWCI
23.19
Type
conference paper
Language
en
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  • International Workshop on Particle Physics and the Early Universe (COSMO) (publishedVersion)
  • arXiv (Cornell University) (submittedVersion)
  • CERN Document Server (European Organization for Nuclear Research) (submittedVersion)
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Astronomy and Astrophysics › Cosmology and Gravitation Theories
  • Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Astronomy and Astrophysics › Relativity and Gravitational Theory
  • Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Astronomy and Astrophysics › Advanced Differential Geometry Research
Keywords
energy conditions, general relativity, strong gravitational fields, cosmic geometry, quantum effects, traversable wormholes, warp drive, time machine, singularity theorems

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