[Cagey]

Mallett. The perfect name for this guy.

[Cagey]

See if you can borrow this thing from your fellow Professor. I'll see you in 1964.

[Wolfie]

"I wonder if the people of the future will use time travel to alter their past, our present."

Nice of him to prove his theory won't work.

[Jack Wilson]

What if he goes back in time and gets killed? How will he invent his time machine?

[surfer]

Everything as we know it will change...we really know nothing about science...there is a ton of worthless knowledge on the planet and yet there is very little wisdom.

I hope this guy does it...that ought to screw up a few things...

[hometoroost]

Steven Wright beat him to it. He said "I made instant coffee in the microwave, I think I went backwards in time"

[jerod]

W A C K - O!!!

[neutrino]

Well, actually, this could have some interesting implications. Probably only at the quantum level, but even then it might be possible to send a signal. Wouldn't it be nice to know how a battle turned out...before you committed forces?

[doug from upland]

If this thing works, I'm stealing it and going back in time to the back seat of an old Ford where Virgina Kelley got knocked up. I'll see that this tragic act is stopped.

[Revolting cat!]

This is from the Weekly World News, isn't it? Whatever, as long as it works!

[aomagrat]

Time travel is impossible. If it were possible, someone in the future would have already invented it and come back to mess with us.

[PetroniDE]

Nice article, but science-fiction. Time travel is impossible. U of Connecticut should invest in something more feasible. Nice to dream though.

[Tai_Chung]

If he went back in time one day, would he be liable for an extra day of taxes?

[Constitution Day]

I think Prof. Mallett had one too many hits of acid.

[Carlucci]

"When this baby hits 88 miles and hour, you're gonna see some serious sh*t!" <-- Dr. Emmet Brown, Back to the Future

[peteram]

Mallett's theory uses laser light that is forced to circulate in one continuous loop by using mirrors or fiber optics. In the center a single spinning particle would be placed, such as a neutron. Then, once it hits a speed of 88 mph the Flux Capacitor kicks in and the particle would be sent into the past where Doc Brown would retrieve it, place it into a 1984 DeLorean, and send it Back to the Future.

[lafroste]

Ultracold research group have been able to slow light down to the speed of a bike

Does anyone know how they did this or where it was reported?

[cinFLA]

I wonder if the people of the future will use time travel to alter their past, our present."

Of course. I saw it in the movies.

[swampfox98]

He can have the Morelocks.

[babygene]

Actually, my brother has been working on a time machine for years., and he has had some successes. When completed it will let the subject move backward and forward in time.

At this point he has the forward portion working, except that it still moves forward relatively slowly, and he has still to tackle moving back. The top speed for forward time travel according to him is at a snail's pace of one day for each 24 hour period.

He is selling the device, which looks like a large over stuffed chair, and though there's still work to do, he's offering a free upgrade to the firmware when it is completed. He intends to use the money from the sales of the incomplete machine to continue with his research.

[dpwiener]

When the September 11th attack took place, it didn't bother me at all. I figured that within a week it would all go away and we'd never know it had even happened. But then I heard that "7 Days" had been cancelled by UPN, and I knew our goose was cooked.