Timeline for Spacetime line elements and proper time (specific problem)
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| Jan 1 at 22:23 | comment | added | Attila Janos Kovacs | The answer is obviously correct. However, I don't understand how it becomes a Closed Timelike Curve. For it to be closed, all coordinates must be the same at the end as they were at the beginning. t, R, z are constants, ϕ changes. Ergo ϕ must be a periodic coordinate, say between 0 and 2Pi. But since ϕ=wλ we , it must end up being periodic λ But then λ we can't be the path length parameter of the world line, can it? | |
| May 26, 2014 at 17:35 | history | edited | Jordan | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| May 26, 2014 at 17:30 | history | answered | Jordan | CC BY-SA 3.0 |