The Time Machine Factory [unspeakable, speakable] on Time Travel -TM2019

Black Holes are Time Machines

Sep 23, 2019, 11:00 AM

40m

talk Causality preservation and Chronology violation, CTCs

Speaker

Prof. Francesca Vidotto (University of Western Ontario, Canada)

Description

What would happen if you could enter inside a black hole? You would travel to the future, coming out of a white hole! In fact, the huge gravitational redshift distinguish two characteristic time for such a process: the one of the infalling observer, that is fast, and the one of an external observer, that is extremely long. I discuss how such a process is allowed by gluing classical metrics without violation of causality. On the other hand, the full process is a characteristic non-perturbative quantum phenomenon, that involve the superposition of different geometries. I discuss the condition for this to happen, including an intriguing realisation in the remnant phase of the black hole.

Presentation materials

Vidotto TM2019.pdf