It is shown that a region containing closed timelike lines cannot evolve from regular initial data in a singularity-free asymptotically flat space-time. Furthermore, the causality assumption made in the black-hole uniqueness proofs is justified: It is demonstrated that no physically realistic nonsingular black hole can have a causality-violating exterior.
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Frank J. Tipler (1976) studied this question.
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