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Michael S. Morris
Researcher at California Institute of Technology
Publications - 7
Citations - 4020
Michael S. Morris is an academic researcher from California Institute of Technology. The author has contributed to research in topics: Wormhole & General relativity. The author has an hindex of 5, co-authored 7 publications receiving 3435 citations.
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Wormholes in spacetime and their use for interstellar travel: A tool for teaching general relativity
Michael S. Morris,Kip S. Thorne +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a new class of solutions of the Einstein field equations is presented, which describe wormholes that, in principle, could be traversed by human beings, and it is essential in these solutions that the wormhole possess a throat at which there is no horizon.
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Wormholes, time machines, and the weak energy condition.
TL;DR: It is argued that, if the laws of physics permit an advanced civilization to create and maintain a wormhole in space for interstellar travel, then that wormhole can be converted into a time machine with which causality might be violatable.
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The R 2 cosmology: Inflation without a phase transition
TL;DR: A pure gravity inflationary model for the Universe is examined which is based on adding an Epsilon term to the usual gravitational Lagrangian, and it is shown that this model gives significant inflation essentially independent of initial conditions.
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Natural wormholes as gravitational lenses.
John G. Cramer,Robert L. Forward,Michael S. Morris,Matt Visser,Gregory Benford,Geoffrey A. Landis +5 more
TL;DR: The analysis is discussed in terms of wormholes, and the observational test proposed is more generally a search for compact negative mass objects of any origin, recommending that MACHO search data be analyzed for GNACHO's.
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Initial Conditions for the $R + \epsilon R^2$ Cosmology
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors use the wave function from quantum cosmology to describe this inflation as a chaotic inflationary phase immediately following the quantum creation of the universe, and evaluate, compare, and discuss the distributions over initial conditions that are fixed by the two boundary-condition proposals of Hartle and Hawking ("no boundary") and Vilenkin ("tunneling from nothing").