TIME MACHINES
IN PHYSICS
state of the art

Paradoxes


2000========================================

[Pop]
Ford LH, Roman, TA
Negative energy, wormholes and warp drive
Scientific American, pp 46-53,  Jan 2000

1999 ========================================

[Phil]
King D.
Time travel and self-consistency: Implications for determinism and the human condition
Ratio-New Series. 12(3):271-278, 1999 Sep.

[Phil]
Chambers T.
Discussion - Time travel: How not to defuse the principal paradox
Ratio-New Series. 12(3):296-301, 1999 Sep.

[Ph]+
Grey W.
Troubles with time travel
Philosophy. 74(287):55-70, 1999 Jan.

[P?]
Manes S
Time travel for the error-prone
Forbes. 163(4):138-+, 1999 Feb 22.

1998 ===============================================

[P]+
Smith NJJ
The problems of backward time travel
Endeavour. 22(4):156-158, 1998.

[Pop]
Cole GHA and Dunningdavies J
The prospects for time travel - comments 
Observatory.  118(1144):165-166, 1998 Jun.

[GR]
Sharlow MF
A new non-Hausdorff spacetime model for resolution of the time travel paradoxes
Annals of Physics.  263(2):179-197, 1998 Mar 1.

[QM?]
Antonsen F and Bormann K
Time machines and the breakdown of unitarity
International Journal of Theoretical Physics. 37(9):2383-2393, 1998 Sep.

[GR]
Rosenberg S
Testing causality violation on spacetimes with closed timelike curves
Physical Review D.  57(6):3365-3377, 1998 Mar 15.

[Pop]
Chown M
All the worlds a time machine
New Scientist.  157(2124):38-41, 1998 Mar 7.

1997 ====================================================

[Lit]
Hamburger S
Time machines - the best time travel stories ever written - Adler,b
Library Journal.  122(19):79, 1997 Nov 15.

[Pop]
Bonham E
Time travel
New Scientist.  154(2088):51, 1997 Jun 28.

[Ph-Pdx]
Riggs PJ
The principal paradox of time travel
Ratio-New Series.  10(1):48-64, 1997 Apr.
 
[GR-Pdx]
Krasnikov SV
Causality violation and paradoxes
Physical Review D.  55(6):3427-3430, 1997 Mar 15.

1996 =============================================

[Gen]
Parsons P
A warped view of time travel
Science.  274(5285):202-203, 1996 Oct 11.

[GR]
Carlini A and  Novikov ID
Time machines and the principle of self-consistency as a consequence of
the principle of stationary action
(ii) - the Cauchy problem for a self-interacting relativistic particle
International Journal of Modern Physics D.  5(5):445-479, 1996 Oct.

[Pdx]
Mensky MB and Novikov ID
Three-dimensional billiards with time machine
International Journal of Modern Physics D.  5(2):179-192, 1996 Apr.

Mensky MB and Novikov ID
Decoherence caused by topology in a time-machine spacetime
International Journal of Modern Physics D.  5(1):1-27, 1996 Feb.

Antonsen F and Bormann K
Self-consistency of the quantum billiard problem in wormhole spacetimes
International Journal of Theoretical Physics.  35(6):1223-1244, 1996 Jun.


Everett AE
Warp drive and causality
Phys Rev D 53 (12) p7365-7368, Jun 1996
[warp-drive TM proposed]

Bagnol Ph
Whre have all the time travellers gone?
New Scientist. 6 July 1996 p. 45-45

Wheeler JC
Of wormholes, time machines, and paradoxes
Astronomer Feb1996 p 52-57

Visser M
Lorenztian Wormholes
AIP, Woodbury, 1996
[a book on TM's etc]


1995 ===============================================

[Lit]
Slusser G and Chatelain D
Spacetime geometries, time travel and the modern geometrical narrative
Science-Fiction Studies.  22(Part 2):161-186, 1995 Jul.

[??]
Woodward JF
Making the universe safe for historians
- time travel and the laws of physics (VOL 8, PG 1, 1995)
Foundations of Physics Letters.  8(3):303, 1995 Jun.

[??]
Woodward JF
Making the universe safe for historians - time travel and the laws of physics
[Review]
Foundations of Physics Letters.  8(1):1-39, 1995 Feb.

[WH?]
Sushkov SV
Vacuum polarization of a complex automorphic scalar field in two-dimensional
spacetime with closed null geodesics and the time-machine problem
Theoretical & Mathematical Physics.  102(1):98-108, 1995 Jan.

[QM]
Sushkov SV
Quantum complex scalar field in two-dimensional spacetime
with closed timelike curves and a time-machine problem
Classical & Quantum Gravity.  12(7):1685-1697, 1995 Jul.

[Topology]
Konstantinov MY
Causality properties of topologically nontrivial space-time models
International Journal of Modern Physics D.  4(2):247-257, 1995 Apr.

[*]+
Yurtsever U
A remark on kinks and time machines
General Relativity & Gravitation.  27(6):691-693, 1995 Jun.
[on CGSJ 94]


1994  ======================================

[]
Politzer HD
Path integrals, density matrices, and information flow with closed timelike curves
Phys Rev D 49 (8) p. 3981-3989
[Politzer time machine introduced]


[Pop]
Simon JZ
The physics of time travel
Physics World.  7(12):27-33, 1994 Dec.

[Lit]
Morris R
The perils of time travel
Futurist.  28(5):60, 1994 Sep-Oct.

[Pop-QM]
Deutsch D.  Lockwood M.
The quantum physics of time travel - common sense may rule out
such excursions - but the laws of physics do not
Scientific American.  270(3):68-74, 1994 Mar.

[Pop]
Beeman RH. + Peters AR. + Hewett LD. + Deutsh & Lockwood
Time travel - reply
Scientific American.  271(3):10, 1994 Sep.

[QM]
Gonella F
Time machine, self-consistency and the foundations of quantum mechanics
Foundations of Physics Letters.  7(2):161-166, 1994 Apr.

[]
Krasnikov SV
ON THE CLASSICAL STABILITY OF A TIME MACHINE
Classical & Quantum Gravity.  11(11):2755-2759, 1994 Nov.

[WH]
Ori A and  Soen Y
Causality violation and the weak energy condition
Physical Review D.  49(8):3990-3997, 1994 Apr 15.

1993 ============================================

1992 ============================================

Hawking SW
Chronology protection conjecture
Phys Rev D 46 (2) p. 603-611, July 1992

Chown M
Time travel without paradoxes
New Scientist, p.23-23,  28 March 1992

Gott JR
Phys Rev Lett 66, 1126, (1991)
[two-string time machine introduced]


1990 ============================================

Redmount I
Wormholes, time travel and quantum gravity
New Scientist, p.57-61,  28 Apr 1991

Echeverria F, Klinkhammer G, and Thorne KS
Billiard balls in wormhole spacetime with closed timelike curves: Classical theory
Phys Rev D 44 (4) p. 1077-1099, Aug 1991





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