Causality violating geodesics in Bonnor's rotating dust metric

Abstract

We exhibit timelike geodesic paths for a metric, introduced by Bonnor [11] and considered also by Steadman [13], and show that coordinate time runs backward along a portion of these geodesics.

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• Closed timelike curves in general relativity
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