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Physicist pursues life-long dream of time travel
UnExplained Mysteires ^ | 01/04/2020

Posted on 01/04/2020 9:53:58 AM PST by BenLurkin

During a recent interview with CNN, Mallett, who is a respected physics professor, claimed that he had written a scientific equation that could serve as the basis for time travel - a concept that he became obsessed with as a young boy after reading The Time Machine by author H.G. Wells.

It's a goal that he has been pursuing for most of his life and although the 74-year-old admits that he is unlikely to see time travel became a reality during his lifetime, there's a chance that his efforts will have contributed in no small part to the creation of a working time machine in the future.

Back in 2018 we reported that Mallett had put together a prototype device designed to demonstrate some of the principles involved in his time travel concept.

The device features a ring of lasers and the idea is to 'twist' the space inside the ring. According to Mallett, because time and space are intricately linked, warping one should also warp the other.

"If space is being twisted strongly enough, this linear timeline is going to be twisted into a loop. If time all of a sudden is twisted into a loop that allows us the possibility of travelling into the past," he said

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KEYWORDS: stringtheory; timetravel
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To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity

Or quantum bridge...


21 posted on 01/04/2020 10:46:08 AM PST by bigbob (Trust Trump. Trust the Plan.)
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To: C210N

I love the Far Side!


22 posted on 01/04/2020 10:46:20 AM PST by beethovenfan (Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin)
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To: BenLurkin

Well the future hasn’t happened yet and the past is done so basically we just live in the present but now it’s the past where I just wrote this which is the future to that past and now I gotta fly ....


23 posted on 01/04/2020 10:48:50 AM PST by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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To: a fool in paradise
Ernest Lawrence, a pure experimentalist... said, "Don't you worry about it -- the theorists will find a way to make them all the same." -- Alvarez by Luis Alvarez (page 184)

I must reiterate my feeling that experimentalists always welcome the suggestions of the theorists. But the present situation is ridiculous... In my considered opinion the peer review system, in which proposals rather than proposers are reviewed, is the greatest disaster to be visited upon the scientific community in this century. No group of peers would have approved my building the 72-inch bubble chamber. Even Ernest Lawrence told me that he thought I was making a big mistake. He supported me because my track record was good. I believe U.S. science could recover from the stultifying effects of decades of misguided peer reviewing if we returned to the tried-and-true method of evaluating experimenters rather than experimental proposals. Many people will say that my ideas are elitist, and I certainly agree. The alternative is the egalitarianism that we now practice and that I've seen nearly kill basic science in the USSR and in the People's Republic of China. -- ibid (pp 200-201)

24 posted on 01/04/2020 10:55:09 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: a fool in paradise

...and, LOL. :^)


25 posted on 01/04/2020 10:55:53 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: SkyDancer

It is ALWAYS now.


26 posted on 01/04/2020 10:57:31 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Decade of decision for America)
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To: Only1choice____Freedom; Zathras

You are The One who was.

You are The One who is.

You are The One who will be.

-Zathras


27 posted on 01/04/2020 11:01:50 AM PST by GreenLanternCorps (Hi! I'm the Dread Pirate Roberts! (TM) Atsk about franchise opportunities in your area.)
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To: BenLurkin

Time is relative, dependent, you can save it, you can spend it
Doing things you like to do or learning how
You can’t see it, you can’t taste it...
But you certainly can waste it...
Which is really what we’re doing here right now


28 posted on 01/04/2020 11:06:27 AM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear (A hero is a hero no matter what medal they give him. Likewise a schmuck is still a schmuck.)
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To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity; Leaning Right; BenLurkin

The faster you travel the more time slows and space shrinks. So theoretically at the speed of light the universe shrinks to a point and you’re everywhere instantaneously and time stands still.

There’s somebody who claims to be omnipresent, omniscient, omnipotent, and everlasting.

Maybe he’s traveling at the speed of light?


29 posted on 01/04/2020 11:12:02 AM PST by aquila48 (Do not let them make you care!)
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To: Bob434
IF you sleep backerds- you will wake up the day before-

So, if you go “to wake,” you’ll “sleep up” the previous day? Got it. Now we just have to figure out how to do that. Great job.

30 posted on 01/04/2020 11:12:36 AM PST by Swordmaker (My pistol self-identifies as an iPad, so you must accept it in gun-free zones, you hoplophobe bigot!)
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To: Bob434

That’s stupid. Everybody knows when you sleep backwards, it reverses the polarity.


31 posted on 01/04/2020 11:14:09 AM PST by Cvengr ( Adversity in life & death is inevitable; Stress is optional through faith in Christ.)
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To: Cvengr

Reversing the polarity is the cause of, and solution to, all of the universe’s problems.


32 posted on 01/04/2020 11:19:20 AM PST by Sirius Lee (They are openly stating that they intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live.)
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To: Cvengr

Well duh- but not everyone knows that if you tape magnets backerds together it will reverse the reverse


33 posted on 01/04/2020 11:20:21 AM PST by Bob434
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To: Sirius Lee

That, and making sure the power button is on.


34 posted on 01/04/2020 11:20:38 AM PST by Cvengr ( Adversity in life & death is inevitable; Stress is optional through faith in Christ.)
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To: aquila48

> So theoretically at the speed of light the universe shrinks to a point and you’re everywhere instantaneously and time stands still. <

I read a short story about that. It was about how the universe would look from the point of view of a photon. Weird stuff. But still not as weird as the US tax code.


35 posted on 01/04/2020 11:23:22 AM PST by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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To: BenLurkin

I am traveling thru time as is everyone else.


36 posted on 01/04/2020 11:27:05 AM PST by Brilliant
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To: C210N
Great cartoons 👌
37 posted on 01/04/2020 11:29:09 AM PST by 2001convSVT (Medicare for All = Medical Care for None!)
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To: GreenHornet
LOL! 👍👍
38 posted on 01/04/2020 11:31:50 AM PST by aquila48 (Do not let them make you care!)
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To: BenLurkin

another officious communist’s green new deal promotes and pushes for time travel...
backwards...


39 posted on 01/04/2020 11:35:49 AM PST by heavy metal (your reward will be in heaven not on your paycheck...)
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To: GreenHornet

LOL- I heard you next week-


40 posted on 01/04/2020 11:45:39 AM PST by Bob434
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