Chronology protection conjecture
Conjetura de protección de la cronología
- Date
- 1992 · confidence high
- Place
- Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
- Credited to
- Stephen Hawking
- Field
- Cosmos & Earth
What was discovered
Stephen Hawking's hypothesis that as-yet-unformulated physical laws, beyond classical general relativity, would prevent time travel even in situations where the equations would allow it.
What it led to
- Theoretical debate over closed timelike curves
- Research on the quantum stability of wormholes
- A link between quantum gravity and causality