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A Dutch ww2 hero lost as a fighter pilot who after a protege of Einstein independently !ay have invented closed timelike curves CTCs the possible theoretical basis for ti!e travel...
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Capt Daniel Goodman thanks for the thread on Wiellem Jacob van Stockum, I always assumed it was Einstein theory/practice of relativity alone. Wow.
from the University of Toronto and his Ph.D. from the University of Edinburgh.
In the mid-1930s, van Stockum became an early enthusiast of the then new theory of gravitation, general relativity. In 1937, he published a paper which contains one of the first exact solutions in general relativity which modeled the gravitational field produced by a configuration of rotating matter, the van Stockum dust, which remains an important example noted for its unusual simplicity. In this paper, van Stockum was apparently the first to notice the possibility of closed timelike curves, one of the strangest and most disconcerting phenomena in general relativity.
from the University of Toronto and his Ph.D. from the University of Edinburgh.
In the mid-1930s, van Stockum became an early enthusiast of the then new theory of gravitation, general relativity. In 1937, he published a paper which contains one of the first exact solutions in general relativity which modeled the gravitational field produced by a configuration of rotating matter, the van Stockum dust, which remains an important example noted for its unusual simplicity. In this paper, van Stockum was apparently the first to notice the possibility of closed timelike curves, one of the strangest and most disconcerting phenomena in general relativity.
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Capt Daniel Goodman
No one of his protégés before van stockum also found the CTC solution though it's now named for van stockum. The protege I believed is named in a Wikipedia page if not that one them the one on vam stockum dust it's a separate page. Also Einstein didn't win his Nobel for relativity but for the photoelevtricmeffect; many thanks also for the very kind endorsement as well of course.
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