I have two question on Timelike loops for which I have trouble to get clear answer.
In sapecial Relativity Einstein synchronisation is required implivcitly hence Lorentz transformatioin apply. How that works in Goedel universe?
When the clock at departure base point is t=zero when time travrel starts, it freely rotates with the universe (hoping centrifugal force is balanced), but there will be no 0 time ever after let alone less than zero as the display has no minus sign. For that to happen the whole universe must be rotating backwards to where it was just because time traveller decided to take time travel and return. And also because of that, the clock must learn how to uncount the ticks.
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@Preston-Guynn
Thank you for the interesting interpretation. But Goedel progresses with physical interpretation and calculates spaceship parameters and even fuel consumption for time travel. However, I found no references to detailed calculation anywhere apart from footnotes in one of his publications in the collected works volume.
This becomes an engineering problem for which he should show how traveller's abstract clock is advancing and how the time in some reference, not co- moving frame is changing under the spacecraf, when that time start decrementing and meets the departure time of zero, where the travel ends. He also claims to arrive at departure point whatever it means. So Goedel's interpretation must be a pure fantasy, but Goedel must have had some mathematical way to give the journey appearance of reality. As much as your interpretation is appealing to me, the consensus seems to be going against it, and some experts seem to be excited to go back to their birth time. All that leaves me confused, hence my question. Thanks again for your kind response.
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