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| A '''Krasnikov tube''' is a speculative mechanism for space travel involving the warping of spacetime into permanent [[faster than light|superluminal]] tunnels. The resulting structure is analogous to a [[wormhole]] with the endpoints displaced in time as well as space. The idea was proposed by [[Serguei Krasnikov]] in 1995.<ref name="krasnikov">{{cite arxiv
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| ==Structure==
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| The tube is a distortion of spacetime that can be intentionally created (using hypothetical technology) in the wake of travel near the speed of light. The Krasnikov tube allows for a return trip that takes you back to the time right after you left.
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| This several light-year long artificial "tube" might arguably constitute a megastructure, but unlike most megastructures it's not constructed of physical matter such as titanium or plastic, but instead is just a distortion of spacetime.<ref>{{ cite web
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| [[Image:krasnikov.PNG|frame|right|This [[spacetime diagram]] shows the causal structure of a Krasnikov tube; the U-shaped line is the boundary of the tube, while the diagonal lines represent the forward [[light cone]]s of the dots.]]
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| Experiencing the effect requires that the traveler race along the tube at speeds close to that of light.
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| ==Causality violations==
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| ===One-tube case===
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| Krasnikov argues that despite the time-machine-like aspects of his metric, it cannot violate the [[Causality (physics)|law of causality]] (that a cause must always precede its effects in all coordinate systems and along all space-time paths) because all points along the round-trip path of the spaceship always have an ordered timelike separation interval [in algebraic terms, <math> c^2 dt^2 </math> is always larger than <math>dx^2 + dy^2 + dz^2</math>]. This means, for example, that a light-beam message sent along a Krasnikov tube cannot be used for back-in-time signaling.
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| ===Two-tube case===
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| While one Krasnikov tube can be seen to present no problems with causality, it was proposed by Allen E. Everett and Thomas A. Roman of [[Tufts University]] that two Krasnikov tubes going in opposite directions can create a [[closed timelike curve]], with possible violations of [[causal system|causality]].
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| For example, suppose that a tube is built connecting Earth to a star 3000 light years away. The astronauts are travelling at relativistic velocities, so that the journey only takes 1.5 years from their perspective. Then the astronauts lay down tube II rather than travelling back in tube I, the first tube they produced. In another 1.5 years of ship time they will arrive back on Earth, but at a time 6000 years in the future of their departure. But now that two Krasnikov tubes are in place, astronauts from the future can travel to the star in tube II, then to Earth in tube I and will arrive 6000 years earlier than their departure. The Krasnikov tube system has become a time machine.
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| In 1993, [[Matt Visser]] argued that the two mouths of a wormhole with an induced clock difference could not be brought together without causing quantum field and gravitational effects that would either make the wormhole collapse or the two mouths repel each other.<ref name="visser_1">{{cite journal | first = Matt | last = Visser | authorlink = Matt Visser | title = From wormhole to time machine: Comments on Hawking's Chronology Protection Conjecture | journal = [[Physical Review]] D | volume = 47 | year = 1993 | issue = 2 | pages = 554–565 | doi = 10.1103/PhysRevD.47.554| arxiv=hep-th/9202090|bibcode = 1993PhRvD..47..554V }}</ref> (See [[Time Travel#Using wormholes|Time travel using wormholes]].) It has been suggested that a similar mechanism would destroy time-machine Krasnikov tubes. That is, vacuum fluctuation would grow exponentially, eventually destroying the Second Krasnikov tube as it approaches the timelike loop limit, in which causality is violated.{{who?|date=May 2013}}
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| ==See also==
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| * [[Wormhole]]
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| * [[String theory]]
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| * [[Time travel]]
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| * [[Wheeler-Feynman absorber theory]]
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| ==References==
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| {{reflist}}
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| ==External links==
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| * [http://www.npl.washington.edu/av/altvw86.html The Krasnikov Tube: A Subway to the Stars by John G. Cramer]
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| * [http://arxiv.org/pdf/gr-qc/9702049 Exposition and criticism of the Krasnikov Tube by Allen E. Everett and Thomas A. Roman ]
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| * [http://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0603060 Superluminal motion in (semi)classical relativity by Serguei Krasnikov (In Russian) ]
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| {{Time travel}}
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| {{DEFAULTSORT:Krasnikov Tube}}
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| [[Category:Warp drive theory]]
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