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''The Kerr Spacetime: Rotating black holes in general relativity'' (2009)
*M Novello, Matt Visser & G E Volovik
''Artificial Black Holes'' (2002)
*Matt Visser
''Lorentzian Wormholes: From Einstein To Hawking'' (1995)
Matt Visser's personalized homepageresearch papers by Matt Visser on arXiv
* New Zealand mathematicians Fellows of the Royal Society of New Zealand Victoria University of Wellington faculty Living people New Zealand people of Dutch descent Year of birth missing (living people) People educated at St Bernard's College, Lower Hutt Fellows of the American Physical Society {{mathematician-stub
Matt Visser is a mathematics
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Professor
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at Victoria University of Wellington
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, in New Zealand.
Work
Visser's research interests includegeneral relativity
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, quantum field theory
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and cosmology
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.
Visser has produced a large number of research papers on the subject of wormhole
A wormhole ( Einstein-Rosen bridge) is a hypothetical structure connecting disparate points in spacetime, and is based on a special solution of the Einstein field equations.
A wormhole can be visualized as a tunnel with two ends at separate ...
s, gravitational horizons and notably the emerging subject of acoustic metrics.
He is the author of the reference book on the current state of wormhole theory, ''Lorentzian Wormholes — from Einstein to Hawking'' (1996) and co-editor of ''Artificial Black Holes'' (2002).
Books
*David L Wiltshire, Matt Visser & Susan Scott''The Kerr Spacetime: Rotating black holes in general relativity'' (2009)
*M Novello, Matt Visser & G E Volovik
''Artificial Black Holes'' (2002)
*Matt Visser
''Lorentzian Wormholes: From Einstein To Hawking'' (1995)
See also
*Roman ring
In general relativity, a Roman ring (proposed by Matt Visser in 1997 and named after the Roman arch, a concept proposed by Mike Morris and Kip Thorne in 1988 and named after physicist Tom Roman) is a configuration of wormholes where no subset of ...
External links
Matt Visser's personalized homepage
* New Zealand mathematicians Fellows of the Royal Society of New Zealand Victoria University of Wellington faculty Living people New Zealand people of Dutch descent Year of birth missing (living people) People educated at St Bernard's College, Lower Hutt Fellows of the American Physical Society {{mathematician-stub