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EPJ Web of Conferences
Volume 58, 2013
TM 2012 – The Time Machine Factory [unspeakable, speakable] on Time Travel in Turin
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| Article Number | 01013 | |
| Number of page(s) | 14 | |
| Section | Causality in Physics | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20135801013 | |
| Published online | 05 September 2013 | |
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20135801013
Discrete mechanics, “time machines” and hybrid systems
Dipartimento di Fisica “Enrico Fermi”, Università di Pisa, Largo Pontecorvo 3, I-56127 Pisa, Italia
a e-mail: elze@df.unipi.it
Published online: 5 September 2013
Modifying the discrete mechanics proposed by T.D. Lee, we construct a class of discrete classical Hamiltonian systems, in which time is one of the dynamical variables. This includes a toy model of “time machines” which can travel forward and backward in time and which differ from models based on closed timelike curves (CTCs). In the continuum limit, we explore the interaction between such time reversing machines and quantum mechanical objects, employing a recent description of quantum-classical hybrids.
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