https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20135801003
Chronology violations and the origin of time
Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica “U. Dini” Università degli Studi di Firenze Via S. Marta 3 I-50139 Firenze, Italy
a e-mail: ettore.minguzzi@unifi.it
Published online: 5 September 2013
We review some results which relate chronology violations to singularities, and explain how the absence of both pathologies implies the existence of a cosmological time. Building on these mathematical ideas we then propose a causality argument in order to solve the homogeneity and entropy problems of cosmology. The solution is based on the replacement of the spacelike Big Bang boundary with a null boundary behind which stays a chronology violating region. This solution requiring a tilting of the light cones near the null boundary is based more on the behavior of the light cones and hence on causality, than on the behavior of the scale factor (expansion). The philosophical connection of this picture with Augustine of Hyppo famous discussion on time and creation is commented.
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