The World First Time Machine (3/5)

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A TLC documentary exploring the possibilities of time travel

Ronald L. Mallett is a full professor of physics at the University of Connecticut.

For quite some time, Ronald Mallett has been working on plans for a time machine. This technology would be based upon a ring laser's properties within the context of Einstein's Theory of Relativity. Mallett first argued that the ring laser would produce a limited amount of frame-dragging which might be measured experimentally, saying

"In Einstein's General Theory of Relativity, both matter and energy can create a gravitational field. This means that the energy of a light beam can produce a gravitational field. My current research considers both the weak and strong gravitational fields produced by a single continuously circulating unidirectional beam of light. In the weak gravitational field of a unidirectional ring laser, it is predicted that a spinning neutral particle, when placed in the ring, is dragged around by the resulting gravitational field."

In a later paper, he argued that at sufficient energies, the circulating laser might produce not just frame-dragging but also closed timelike curves, allowing time travel into the past

For the strong gravitational field of a circulating cylinder of light, he has found new exact solutions of the Einstein field equations for the exterior and interior gravitational fields of the light cylinder. The exterior gravitational field is shown to contain closed timelike lines.
The presence of closed timelike lines indicates the possibility of time travel into the past. This creates the foundation for a time machine based on a circulating cylinder of light.

Funding for his program, now known as The Space-time Twisting by Light (STL) project, is progressing. Full details on the project, Mallett's theories, a list of upcoming public lectures and links to popular articles on his work can be found at the Professor's UConn web page, and an illustration showing the concept on which Mallett has designed the time machine can be seen on a Geocities webpage.

He also wrote a book entitled, Time Traveler: A Scientist's Personal Mission to Make Time Travel a Reality, co-written with New York Times best-selling author Bruce B. Henderson, that was first published in 2006. In June 2008, motion picture director Spike Lee's production company announced it had acquired the film rights to Mallett's book. Lee is co-writing the movie script and directing the picture.

Ronald L. Mallett
Ph.D., Professor of Physics
University of Connecticut
http://www.phys.uconn.edu/~mallett/main/main.htm

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[fiieeldy]

I love the asian girl. and where can i buy one of those light time clocks :D

[estesoyojajaja]

that woul be a Rosewell tat ends well.

[jimahr]

Did this guy drop acid in college? He's talking about parallel universes. Hes confused it with psychedelic universes. Imagination is not physics or maybe it is. Good grief.

[greedywolfy]

if one go in back and killed his father that means he killed the worng person. he never knew who was his father.

[doceigen]

Obviously Physics is a mirror to video special effects... lol So I will go play a video of Britney Spears dancing on my monitor and I will move the monitor just in time for her to be dumped out on my desk.... problem is, she'll be too small. Damn!

[psynema]

Grandfather paradox - you weren't born yet, so you go back in time and DISAPPEAR - you weren't born yet. Problem solved. HTF do you exempt your body from the effects of time travel.

[joshhorne]

@Bleachlover214 Shoot

[Bleachlover214]

@joshhorne I'll answer it if you really want me to.

[joshhorne]

I'm a total boob when it comes to physics. So if Mallet's slight moving of the photon clock slowed it's ticking, how come my watch doesn't tick slower than other clocks when I walk down the hall? Forgive me if that's a stupid question.

[Astrobob2468]

look at hot tub time machine they changed things and they fucking lived the awesome life