[PatrickHenry]

I know, I know ... you already read this tomorrow.

[Clioman]

"To determine if time loops exist, Mallett is designing a desktop-sized device that will test his time-warping theory."

Isn't the flux-capacitor a little smaller than desk-top sized?

[Falcon4.0]

"they all require an unthinkably gigantic amount of mass."

No problem. Just travel at the speed of light and presto, infinite mass.

[RS]

If time travel were ever to become possible, the amount of tourists would become staggering.

... but that might explain the "loaves and the fishes" -- most of them simply brought their own coolers

[Phlap]

Alchemist announces base metal turned to gold. Film at eleven!!

[Dead Corpse]

John Titor Bump.

Silly people...

[saganite]

I've noticed all these brilliant scientific breakthroughs manage to mention in the first paragraph that they need funding to conduct their experiments. I know, I've posted a few articles like this one.

By the way, I need funding to continue my research on the effects of good scotch on the human nervous system.

[camle]

and you know it works because of all those people throughout history - at all the major events. you know? the ones dressed in strange clothing who appeared and then dissappeared right afterwards?

All them strangers interviewing Lincoln, Washington, etc... can't you see them in all the paintings/photos?

they MUST be there because if time travel was possible, then wouldn't people want to go back into time to witness great events, and meet important people?

[dhs12345]

Don't think they mean people traveling back in time. Just a method of communication. And it is limited to when the device is first turned on. Still, it might be a way to communicate with the future/past.

But then again, you run into the paradoxes -- what happens if you change the time line?

[Bernard Marx]

While his team still needs funding for the project, Mallett calculates that the possibility of time travel using this method could be verified within a decade.

They're not here yet so he must not have gotten his funding.

[steve-b]

If he can get it to the point of transmitting six two-digit numbers one day back in time, he'll have all the funding he needs to continue from there.

[el_texicano]

Dude!!! You're gonna rot your brain visitin' this site so much. ;->

[P-Marlowe]

All I need is a time machine that goes forward anywhere from one to five minutes and then returns. I would then need a way of smuggling the thing into a casino or race track. Maybe IPod will invent a pocket time machine.

[DaGman]

Actually, the author lost me when he says energy and mass are the same thing immediately after saying E=mc². The formula says that Energy equals mass times the speed of light squared which does not mean energy and mass are the same thing.

I didn't read much of the article after that.

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

 

 
OK I don't think anyone has asked this yet (or maybe they did and I missed it)... what is that gizmo on the good doctor's desk?

[TheForceOfOne]

I'm from the future Sarah. The Trolls invent a time machine to go back in time, Jim Rob is your son Sarah, he invented the ZOT!, the Trolls want to stop it, and you're in danger.

[L98Fiero]

This calls for a picture of Napoleon Dynamite using that time machine his brother bought off the net.

[southernnorthcarolina]

Mallett, a U Conn Physics Professor for 30 years, considered an alternative to these time travel methods based on Einstein’s famous relativity equation: E=mc².

Albert Einstein was in his den one day, thinking deep thoughts and drinking a little wine. He was on his third glass when it hit him. Excitedly, he called to his wife: "Dear! Come look at this! I've come up with the theory of relativity!"

Mrs. Einstein walked over, and looked at the pad he'd been scribbling on. At the bottom was "E=mc³."

Mrs. Einstein retorted: "E equals mc cubed? Haven't I told you not to drink and derive?"

[Antoninus]

I wonder if his clock has a cuckoo....

[beethovenfan]

I'll be able to time travel in my resurrection body -
without a machine.

[Richard Axtell]

This is unfortunately the wrong tack, I am afraid. In 2011, Mallett gives up his laser "coffee cup and spoon" concept, and then arrives at the true solution, the laser "toaster and bagel" paradigm. The unfortunate result of time travel is that the traveler must forever after spread himself with cream cheese to remain in what he considers his "current" universe. This is quite a hassle, believe you me!