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Letter: Causality Violating Geodesics in Bonnor's Rotating Dust Metric

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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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  1. Department of Physics and Astronomy, California State University, Northridge, Northridge, California, 91330-8268

    Peter Collas

  2. Department of Mathematics, California State University, Northridge, Northridge, California, 91330-8313

    David Klein

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Collas, P., Klein, D. Letter: Causality Violating Geodesics in Bonnor's Rotating Dust Metric. General Relativity and Gravitation 36, 2549–2557 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1023/B:GERG.0000046853.99745.e4

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