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For a space-time which admits a closed timelike smooth curve it is estimated thatτ ∼2 · 10−24 · √l 2, where τ is the real time andl the spatial length associated with the timelike curve, andρ is the density of material.
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Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Fizika, Vol. 16, No. 9, pp. 33–36, September, 1973.
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Guts, A.K. Closed timelike smooth curves in the general theory of relativity. Soviet Physics Journal 16, 1215–1217 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00890880
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