Lectures on faster-than-light travel and time travel
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The apparent Lorentz invariance of the laws of physics does not imply that space-time is indeed minkowskian. Matter made of solutions of Lorentz-invariant equations would feel a relativistic space-time even if the actual space-time had a quite different geometry (f.i. a galilean space-time). A typical example is provided by sine-Gordon solitons in a galilean world. A " sub-world " restricted to...
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عنوان ژورنال: SciPost Physics Lecture Notes
سال: 2019
ISSN: 2590-1990
DOI: 10.21468/scipostphyslectnotes.10