Time Traveler: Ron Mallett - Conversations from Penn State

Devastated by the loss of his father, Ron Mallett found hope in an unlikely place: H.G. Wells' The Time Machine. Mallett, now a physics professor at the University of Connecticut, discusses how his father's death led him on a lifelong quest to build a time machine, the Spike Lee movie based on his life, and how time travel may not be as far off as many might think.

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[tet43]

What does the fact that this man is African- American have to do with the subject?Their "community"?Are we ever going to be able to look past skin color when relating with other humans on this planet?

[buffpatto1987]

Dr. Ron Mallett I'll donate $1000 but i also want to use the time machine to send myself a letter in the past. Preferibly url's to free hot porn sites

[abduldavinci]

We exist in the past present and future at one time. Say for example I said a syllable or a two letter word like'an' It may seem like I said it at one single point in time buy actually have to account for the definition of time. When I said the a part of and, a millisecond goes by, then the n part comes now and immediately after I end it a fraction of a second comes into the future..

[3291496]

Also what he seems to be missing is, the Energy requirements for his so called whirlpool (warmhole) of the space Conventional energy sources wouldn’t deliver.I think he has got it all wrong.

[3291496]

I see this guy speaking ...always,  sometimes may be trying to create a whirlpool in a tea cup.

He should Quit talking and get it done.

[jimahr]

This man is getting a lot of play time with his time machine plans. He was influenced by science fiction. He read hg wells. He can't send anything back in time. Ever. Doing so creates paradoxes. Alternate universes are his rationale to explain this. Occams razor argues against this. It basically states that when there's far fetched explanations, the simplest one is likely the correct one. That being time moves forward.

[shade1978x]

@crystalballer7983 Oh, brother...

[Khyrid]

I did it! I traveled a minute into the future!

[Khyrid]

I'm going to travel on minute into the future and I'll leave another comment when I get there.

[1okaty]

First define time please!

[MegaAstrodude]

@buffpatto1987,

The way it works theoretically is that you can only travel back to the point in time when the machine was first turned on and not a second further. It's called a "closed timelike curve", which probably doesn't exist, but it's still a good experiment to conduct just to see what results are achieved.

[R2BCH2]

Thought experiment: any information sent back to the past simply vanishes into nothing and not somewhere where it keeps existing, our past or a parallel universe. Granted, the laws of thermodynamics would have to be rewritten. In other words, if something can disintegrate into nothing, something could also emerge from nothing. This would substantiate the question of the big bang theory and what happened before.