• Timelike Infinity is a 1992 science fiction book by British author Stephen Baxter. The second book in the Xeelee Sequence, Timelike Infinity introduces...
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  • Causal structure (redirect from Timelike)
    structure. Future-directed timelike geodesics end up on i + {\displaystyle i^{+}} , the future timelike infinity. Past-directed timelike geodesics end up on...
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  • universe and Timelike Infinity's singularity of the future. An omnibus edition of the first four Xeelee novels (Raft, Timelike Infinity, Flux, and Ring)...
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  • CCC, the universe iterates through infinite cycles, with the future timelike infinity (i.e. the latest end of any possible timescale evaluated for any point...
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  • from the causal structure as the past null cone of future conformal timelike infinity. A black hole event horizon is teleological in nature, meaning that...
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  • Publication place United Kingdom Media type Print Pages 264 ISBN 0-246-13706-1 OCLC 28292571 LC Class PR6052.A849 R3 1991 Followed by Timelike Infinity ...
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    timeline stretching from the Big Bang singularity of the past to his Timelike Infinity (1993) singularity of the future. These stories begin in the present...
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  • Engineering Infinity (ed) Jonathan Strahan". ScienceFiction.com. Retrieved January 6, 2015. Waters, Robert E. (March 8, 2011). "Engineering Infinity, edited...
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  • can be limited to asymptotic "states" or field configurations at timelike infinity, where the interaction Lagrangian is "turned off". These states lie...
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  • would first allow for closed timelike curves, quantum vacuum fluctuations build up and drive the energy density to infinity in the region of the wormholes...
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  • Wigner's-friend scenario of Frauchiger and Renner. Stephen Baxter's novel Timelike Infinity (1992) discusses a variation of Wigner's friend thought experiment...
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    corners of the Penrose diagram, which represent the spacelike and timelike conformal infinities, are π / 2 {\displaystyle \pi /2} from the origin. Penrose diagrams...
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  • Qax, and the Third Expansion, ~5400 CE, began after the events of Timelike Infinity, pursuant to Jim Bolder's destruction of the Qax home-system). The...
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  • December 1993 Publication place United Kingdom Media type Print Pages 366 ISBN 0-00-224025-4 OCLC 29846293 Preceded by Timelike Infinity  Followed by Ring ...
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    half of a single period of the spacetime. Because the conformal infinity of AdS is timelike, specifying the initial data on a spacelike hypersurface would...
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  • Andre Norton (the sequel is Galactic Derelict) Time War by Lin Carter Timelike Infinity by Stephen Baxter Timeline by Michael Crichton TimeRiders by Alex...
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  • v t e Works by Stephen Baxter Xeelee Sequence Raft Timelike Infinity Flux Ring Vacuum Diagrams Reality Dust Riding the Rock Mayflower II Starfall Gravity...
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  • {M^{2}}{2r^{4}}}\,.} At some typical boundary regions such as null infinity, timelike infinity, spacelike infinity, black hole horizons and cosmological horizons, null...
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  • travel that contain closed timelike curves that lead back to the same point in spacetime, physics in or near closed timelike curves (time machines) can...
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  • also, at some typical boundary regions such as null infinity, timelike infinity, spacelike infinity, black hole horizons and cosmological horizons, tetrads...
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  • spatial dimensions and one time dimension. (The hyperbolic plane is a timelike hypersurface in three-dimensional Minkowski space.) The one-point compactification...
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    The Fall of Hyperion Dan Simmons Akinobu Sakai Hayakawa Publishing Timelike Infinity Stephen Baxter Kazuko Onoda Hayakawa Publishing King of Morning, Queen...
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  • physicist Amal Kumar Raychaudhuri and the Soviet physicist Lev Landau. Given a timelike unit vector field X → {\displaystyle {\vec {X}}} (which can be interpreted...
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    comprise the timelike future of the event O. Likewise, the timelike past comprises the interior events of the past light cone. So in timelike intervals Δct...
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  • ergosphere, stationary limit surfaces, event horizons, Cauchy horizons, closed timelike curves, and a ring-shaped curvature singularity. The geodesic equation...
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  • fields, one timelike and three spacelike, defined on a Lorentzian manifold that is physically interpreted as a model of spacetime. The timelike unit vector...
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  • Ie, this timelike geodesic has a finite proper length into the past where it comes out of the horizon (r = 2GM) when v becomes minus infinity. The regions...
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    To relate this to planar geometry it is necessary to fix an oriented timelike line. The chosen coordinates suggest using the point [1,0,0,0,0] ∈ RP4...
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  • ^{2}\right)} ⁠. Furthermore, d τ 2 {\displaystyle d\tau ^{2}} is positive for timelike curves, in which case τ {\displaystyle \tau } is the proper time (time...
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  • first cause. Gott and Li refer to the curvature of spacetime and closed timelike curves as possible mechanisms by which the universe may bring about its...
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