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- adjective Alternative spelling of
timelike .
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Examples
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According to the research published by Irina Arefieva and Igor Volovich, in general relativity, a time-like curve in space-time will run from past to future.
The Most Complicated Thing That Humans Have Built So Far! 2008
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I'm just going to assume that the guy stepped through a closed time-like loop from an expended Wyoming mine c. 1908 and ended up here.
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He was only moving in the time-like dimension (with slight movement in the space-like dimensions).
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According to the research published by Irina Arefieva and Igor Volovich, in general relativity, a time-like curve in space-time will run from past to future.
Archive 2008-03-01 2008
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Ori's theory is actually a set of mathematical equations describing hypothetical conditions that, if established, could lead to the formation of a time machine, technically known as "closed time-like curves."
Time travel just got (theoretically) easier... ewillett 2007
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More to the point here though, how do you test teleological ideas, where causality goes haywire even inside time-like loops by their very predetermination?
Bread Dropped By Bird Causes Problems for LHC | Universe Today 2009
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Whatever field-like (and time-like, and space-like) influences there are operating consciousness, it seems quite clear to me that it has to function via physical mechanism at the crossover phase-space.
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But I have to keep a very open mind to possibilities such as that the cosmos as a whole in trapped in a closed time-like curve, with the “origin” and “end” of time being the same point.
What if Time Really Exists? Sean 2008
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No, my thinking rathole about the Hubble flow, specifically from the point of view of an observer who sees * this* universe (more precisely, our Hubble volume) in the opposite time-like direction from us, went like this:
The Arrow of Time in Scientific American Sean 2008
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By “3+2 dimensional” do you mean that the two interpretations (internal and external) are interpolated by a parameter that behaves like an extra time-like dimension?
The Black Hole War Sean 2008
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