I Time Travel in Newtonian Spacetime: Is it Possible?

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Is time travel possible in Newtonian curved spacetime?
 
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Newtonian space is Euclidean and Newtonian time is absolute.
 
accdd said:
Is time travel possible in Newtonian curved spacetime?
Newtonian curved spacetime is just another formalism for standard force-based Newtonian gravity. So I don’t see how, unless the spacetime has some non-trivial topology
 

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