Matt Visser: Book Chapters

Book Chapters:

  • The quantum physics of chronology protection.
    Future of theoretical physics
    Survey of the current status of Stephen Hawking's "chronology protection conjecture".
    e-Print Archive: gr-qc/0204022.
    In: The future of theoretical physics and cosmology;
    See also: CUP website;
    Proceedings of the conference held in honour of Stephen Hawking on the
    occasion of his 60'th birthday. Held at Cambridge University, 7--10 January 2002.
    Edited by: Gary Gibbons, Stuart Rankine; Paul Shellard.
    ISBN: 0521820812 (Cambridge University Press, October 2003).
    See pages 161--176.


  • Birefringence versus bimetricity.
    (with Carlos Barceló and Stefano Liberati)
    Inquiring the universe
    Contribution to the Festschrift in honour of Professor Mário Novello.
    e-Print Archive: gr-qc/0204017.
    In: Inquiring the Universe
    Essays to celebrate Professor Mario Novello jubilee
    (Frontier Group, 2003)
    ISBN: 2914601085
    See pages 397--429.


  • Generic wormhole throats.
    (with David Hochberg)
    Future of theoretical physics
    e-Print Archive: gr-qc/9710001
    Fifty page survey of energy conditions in wormhole physics.
    In: The Internal Structure of Black Holes and Spacetime Singularities,
    Edited by: L.M. Burko and A. Ori,
    (Institute of Physics press, Bristol, 1997).
    See pages 249--295.


  • A short history of the Universe.
    Awa press book cover
    Fifteen page survey of the evolution and eventual death of our Universe.
    In: The Elegant Universe of Albert Einstein,
    (Awa Press, Wellington, 2006).
    See pages 13--28.
    Based on the Radio New Zealand Year of Physics Lecture series of 2005,
    sponsored by the Royal Society of New Zealand.
    Chapters by: Tom Barnes, Paul Callaghan, Hamish Campbell, Lesley Hall, Richard Hall, Robert Hannah, John Stenhouse, Matt Visser.
    Introduction by Rebecca Priestley.


  • Analogue spacetime based on a 2-component Bose--Einstein condensate.
    (with Silke Weinfurtner and Stefano Liberati)
    Springer lecture notes book cover
    e-Print Archive: gr-qc/0605121
    In: Quantum simulations via analogues: From phase transitions to black holes.
    Edited by: Ralf Schuetzhold and Bill Unruh;
    Springer Lecture Notes in Physics 718 (2007) 115-163.


  • The Kerr spacetime: A brief introduction.
    Kerr spacetime --- CUP
    e-Print Archive: arXiv:0706.0622 [gr-qc]
    To appear in: The Kerr spacetime: Rotating black holes in general relativity.
    Edited by: David Wiltshire, Matt Visser, Susan Scott
    ISBN: 9780521885126 [in press; scheduled release --- late 2008]
    Cambridge University Press.

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