Seventeenth Marcel Grossmann Meeting

Harmonic Oscillator with Time as a Dynamical Variable

12 Jul 2024, 15:40

20m

M3 (Palazzo Micara of the ‘Gabriele d’Annunzio’ University)

Talk in a parallel session Wormholes, energy conditions and time machines Wormholes, energy conditions and time machines

Speaker

Hou Yau (San Francisco State University)

Description

We find that a field with oscillations of matter in proper time has the properties of a zero-spin bosonic field. A particle observed in this field is a proper time oscillator. Neglecting all quantum effects, a proper time oscillator can mimic a point mass at rest in general relativity. The spacetime outside a 'stationary' proper time oscillator is a Schwarzschild field.

Presentation materials

presentation (Pescara).pdf