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A Primer on Spacetime Singularities II: Spatially Homogeneous Cosmologies
Jean-Pierre Luminet
This article is the second part of a review devoted to spacetime singularities in classical General Relativity. While Primer I developed the mathematical framework for defining, cl…
A Primer on Spacetime Singularities I: Mathematical Framework
Jean-Pierre Luminet
This article presents a comprehensive and rigorous overview of spacetime singularities within the framework of classical General Relativity. Singularities are defined through the f…
Closed Timelike Curves, Singularities and Causality: A Survey from Gödel to Chronological Protection
Jean-Pierre Luminet
I give a historical survey of the discussions about the existence of closed timelike curves in general relativistic models of the universe, opening the physical possibility of time…
The Holographic Universe
Jean-Pierre Luminet
I give a critical review of the holographic hypothesis, which posits that a universe with gravity can be described by a quantum field theory in fewer dimensions. I first recall how…
Time, Topology and the Twin Paradox
J. -P. Luminet
The twin paradox is the best known thought experiment associated with Einstein's theory of relativity. An astronaut who makes a journey into space in a high-speed rocket will retur…
Isotropisation of flat homogeneous universes with scalar fields
Stephane Fay, Jean-Pierre Luminet
Starting from an anisotropic flat cosmological model(Bianchi type ), we show that conditions leading to isotropisation fall into 3 classes, respectively 1, 2, 3. We look for nec…