Rotating Squeezed Vacua as Time Machines

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ABSTRACT

Squeezed quantum vacua seems to violate the averaged null energy conditions (ANEC’s), because they have a negative energy density. When treated as a perfect fluid, rapidly rotating Casimir plates will create vorticity in the vacuum bounded by them. The geometry resulting from an arbitrarily extended Casimir plates along their axis of rotation is similar to van Stockum spacetime. We observe closed timelike curves (CTC’s) forming in the exterior of the system resulting from frame dragging. The exterior geometry of this system is similar to Kerr geometry, but because of violation of ANEC, the Cauchy horizon lies outside the system unlike Kerr blackholes, giving more emphasis on whether spacetime is multiply connected at the microscopic level.

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Saleh, S. , Asfar, L. and Mahroussah, A. (2016) Rotating Squeezed Vacua as Time Machines. Journal of Modern Physics, 7, 304-311. doi: 10.4236/jmp.2016.73030.

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