Gödel metric
Métrica de Gödel
- Date
- 1949 · confidence high
- Place
- Princeton, New Jersey, United States
- Credited to
- Kurt Gödel
- Field
- Cosmos & Earth
What was discovered
Exact solution of Einstein's field equations describing a rotating universe with matter and a negative cosmological constant, notable for allowing closed timelike curves (time travel); found by Kurt Gödel.
What it led to
- study of closed timelike curves in relativity
- philosophical debates on the nature of time
- cosmology of rotating universes
- theoretical physics of time travel