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How does faster than light travel violate causality?

Let's say I have two planets that are one hundred thousand lightyears away from each other. I and my immortal friend on the other planet want to communicate, with a strong laser and a tachyon ...
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Is this closed time-like curve in a Godel universe a “circle”?

Would the observer moving along the circle in this Godel space-time diagram feel fictitious forces as though he is accelerating along a circular path or would he simply arrive at an earlier point in ...
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Energy balance of closed timelike curves in Gödel's universe

I recently read Palle Yourgrau's book "A World Without Time" about Gödel's contribution to the nature of time in general relativity. Gödel published his discovery of closed timelike curves in 1949. ...
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Can we develop in the future a technology that can send a message to the past? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Is it possible to go back in time? I believe that everything is possible in this world. If that can be done then why aren't we receiving any message from the future.
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Can the Universe create itself?--Is Gott's Use of CTC in Planck time or less valid?

My question is the title of a 1991 paper by Richard Gott and Li-Xin Li: http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9712344 and is also a subject of his popular book, "Time Travel in Einstein's Universe" Ultimately ...
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How are we going to measure the speed of time machine? [closed]

I have built two time machines (finally) based on two different technologies. ;) I want to race them and see which one takes me from 12/12/1212 to 11/11/1111 (dd/mm/yyyy) first. How can I do this? ...
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Wormholes & Time Machines - for *experts* in GR/maths

EDIT: Further clarification in the context of answers/comments received to 20 Jan has been appended EDIT: 21 Jan - Response to the Lubos Expansion appended [in progress, not yet complete] EDIT: 23 ...