Ronald L. Mallett
Ph.D., Professor of Physics
Posted on 04/06/2002 11:18:28 AM PST by Hellmouth
Edited on 04/13/2004 2:07:39 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Ronald Mallett, a physicist at the University of Connecticut, believes he knows how to build a time machine - an actual device that could send something or someone from the future to the past, or vice versa.
He's not joking.
(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...
Oh my God... the "Anti-Methamphetamine Child Protection Safety Enforcement Time Travel Act of 2034"
After what they've done in the name of regulating interstate commerce, imagine when they can file stuff under regulation of interdimensional commerce...
and to tell him to buy Microsoft at $5.
Great. Just great. The first time traveller is a liberal. He'll come back from the Constitutional Convention and report that the intention of the founding fathers was for government to babysit us all.
This could very well mean that I have the secret to time travel in my very own garage, and possibly my wife's walk-in closet.
I have a question.. Where was the earth physically located (in the universe) 20 years ago? If he sends a person back in time, and time only, they will flail about, suffocating in outer space! The solar system and thus the earth, travel at a good clip in orbit around the galactic center. He better send em back in a spaceship.
If time travel were possible, someone from the future would've already done it, and they'd be here now, showing us the way out of all our problems... But they aren't.
coolidge
Yes, you are!
Put your money on Guth.
Gravitational Field of Circulating Light Beams
In Einstein's general theory of relativity, energy as well as matter produces gravity. This means that the energy of a pure light beam can gravitationally affect matter. A portion of my current research deals with considering the gravitational field produced by a single continuously circulating beam of light in 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 (Mallett, R.L. 2000. Weak gravitational field of the electromagnetic radiation in a ring laser. Phys. Lett. A 269: 214).
Another aspect of this research explores the effect on time of the unidirectional circulating light beam. It is shown that an increase in the intensity of the beam of light results in the formation of closed loops in time.
Cosmic Degenerate Bose-Einstein Dark Matter
In collaboration with Mark P. Silverman of the Department of Physics of Trinity College, a general relativistically covariant theory of a self coupled scalar field has been developed as a possible solution of the missing mass problem. We have shown that spontaneous symmetry breaking of a neutral scalar field coupled to gravity leads directly to ultra-low mass bosons, with a critical temperature far above the temperature of the universe, for most of its duration. The particles are therefore expected to condense into a degenerate Bose Einstein gas, providing a potential candidate for nonbaryonic nonluminous matter (Silverman, M.P. and R.L. Mallett. 2001. Cosmic degenerate matter: a possible solution to the problem of missing mass. Class. Quantum Grav. 18 L37).
I've come back from the year 2057. I'm a history student at Geraldo Rivera University. The government of Mexico in Washington has asked me to research the origins of the majority party, the Libertarians. I understand that our founder, Bill Mahr, frequented this chat room using the undercover name of "OWK". Have you heard of him?
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