HI Folks,
At our monthly Astronomical Society meeting at the Christa Mcauliffe Planetarium, we had a guest speaker like we always do, but this one was special, it was none other than Dr Ronald L. Mallet, a well known Theoretical Astrophysicist.
As most of you already know, our physics tell us that time travel is possible theoretically and mathematically.
Dr. Mallet presented us with a BBC special that dealt with his new blue print for a time machine, and the theory and math that allows it, this was followed by a Q&A period.
Dr Mallet Has been working on this idea for a long time, spurred on by the death of his father when he was only 10. recent advancements and technologies, along with his brilliant mind and sound knowledge of Physics and intuition, have allowed him to not only prove this mathematically and theoretically, but he has working plans for his first prototype.
Following Einsteins general relativity equations and gravity field equations and Frame dragging, with his own work on many published papers, one that he published back in May 2000 to the journal Physics letters A, titled "Weak Gravitational Field Of the Electromagnetic Radiation and a Ring Laser.
This work represented his first breakthrough in time travel research.
Although this paper did not directly mention time travel, it was a necessary stepping stone for his attempt to develop the theory and design for a man made time machine based on a circulating beam of light.
Dr. Mallet has shown that the physics are correct for his design and it has been reviewed by many others in the field.
His first working prototype involves using nanotechnology to produce a stack of ring lasers no wider than a human hair, for which he plans on sending particles and eventually,, hopefully information back in time by creating a closed time loop, this implies that he could only make time travel possible back to when this first machine is built and turned on.
He has A book titled, "Time Traveler" by Thunders Mouth Press which I'm still in the process of reading.
Dr. Mallet has published many scientific papers on many problem areas in Physics, which have been widely accepted by the scientific community, His Web site can be found at,
http://www.physics.uconn.edu/~mallett/main/main.htm
For those of you that are intrigued by the possibilities!
Dennis
