Closed Timelike Curves, Singularities and Causality: A Survey from Gödel to Chronological Protection

Autor: Jean-Pierre Luminet

Publikováno v: Universe, Vol 7, Iss 1, p 12 (2021)

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 travel in the past, as first recognized by K. Gödel in his rotating

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The Status of Cosmic Topology after Planck Data

Autor: Jean-Pierre Luminet

Publikováno v: Universe, Vol 2, Iss 1, p 1 (2016)

In the last decade, the study of the overall shape of the universe, called Cosmic Topology, has become testable by astronomical observations, especially the data from the Cosmic Microwave Background (hereafter CMB) obtained by WMAP and Planck telesco

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The Dark Matter Enigma

Autor: Jean-Pierre Luminet

In this pedestrian approach I give my personal point of view on the various problems posed by dark matter in the universe. After a brief historical overview I discuss the various solutions stemming from high energy particle physics, and the current s

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Gravitational Music. On My Collaboration with Hèctor Parra

Autor: Jean-Pierre Luminet

Publikováno v: Contemporary Music Review
Contemporary Music Review, Taylor & Francis, 2019, 38 (1-2), pp.193-205. ⟨10.1080/07494467.2019.1578129⟩
Contemporary Music Review, Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2019, 38 (1-2), pp.193-205. ⟨10.1080/07494467.2019.1578129⟩
Contemporary Music Review, 2019, 38 (1-2), pp.193-205. ⟨10.1080/07494467.2019.1578129⟩

Since the late 1950s a growing number of composers have engaged with scientific research and have tried to incorporate their understanding of various models and theories into their musical works. A...

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https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02108694

Homage to Quietanus

Autor: Jean-Pierre Luminet, Jacques Mertzeisen

Publikováno v: Inference: International Review of Science. 3

Jacques Mertzeisen and Jean-Pierre Luminet shed light on Johannes Remus Quietanus, a much neglected seventeenth-century astronomer and royal physician, a friend of Kepler, and one of the very first to observe a transit of Mercury.

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https://doi.org/10.37282/991819.17.46