Yes I read an article a few years ago on such theories. One being that
entering a wormhole, orbiting around its other end in a certain way, and
returning would induce such travel into the past. As for travel into the
future, that's the easy part, all you need is near-relativistic
capability to dilate time. One should also be able to travel into the
past with a simple black hole, according to the latest from Hawking.
Of the allowable manifolds, a quite sizeable subset
> have such beasties (anybody who knows if the measure of CTC manifolds in
> the space of all possible GR manifolds is zero, one or somewhere
> between?).
>
> > 2) The very rapid rotation would cause the cylinder to fly apart.
Neutronium has such a high gravity gradient that it is self supporting,
as evidenced by black holes that spin nearly at the speed of light.
>
> On the other hand, I think "tame" FTL and time travel is possible, as
> constrained by the results of Khatsymovsky (you can do FTL, but only
> inside your future light-cone). I.e. you can build wormhole empires and do
> apparent FTL, but not violate causality or build generalized time
> machines.
>
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