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Letter: Travelling back

Published 11 August 2010

From Anthony Maccini

The suggestion that we could be living inside a black hole (24 July, p 9) echoes work done by the Austrian mathematician Kurt Gödel in the 1940s. Gödel demonstrated the existence of paradoxical solutions to Albert Einstein’s field equations in general relativity, in which a rotating universe would allow time travel. This even caused Einstein to have doubts about his own theory.

London, UK

Issue no. 2773 published 14 August 2010

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