A blue print for a Time Machine

[dmill1220]

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

[Buldric]

I seem to remember seeing something about this guy. In his design, and theory for a "time machine" he states that it "is" possible to send objects back in time, however, only as far back to the initial creation of the machine. Such as it requires the machine to go back, so of course it cant go back to before the machine ever existed!

Now, just imagine, the moment he starts it up, a note comes through it telling him to destroy it....mmmm parallel universes ftw.

Clear Skies,
Buldric

[dmill1220]

Hi Buldric,

The first working prototype is designed to prove that frame dragging does exist, by injecting either neutrons which have spin or, polarized light, the effects can then be measured directly in the lab.

If his calculations are correct, which all seem to agree that they are, then the next step is a much bigger machine using higher energy lasers. his calculations show that higher energies are needed to produce the closed time loops and that the energy of the lasers and the size of the laser ring are closely related, also stacking of the lasers can produce the higher energies required to form a closed time loop.

Its at that final stage where the messages from the future could possibly start appearing in our time line.
The implications have my head spinning!

I now own a personalized autographed copy of his book Time Traveler.


Dennis

[Buldric]

Yup. same guy that I remember. Very interesting stuff. =) It really is! I swear....stop looking at me like that!

Clear Skies,
Buldric

[Blue Fire]

Originally Posted by dmill1220

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I now own a personalized autographed copy of his book Time Traveler.

Very cool, Dennis! I'm proud to say that I have an autographed copy of Brian Greene's book The Fabric Of The Cosmos. He also speaks of time travel in that book and concurs on the principle that time travel to the past would be limited to traveling back only to the time when a time machine or time traveling method first existed.

The head spinning, for me, starts with wondering what happens when the machine is powered up and (similarly to what Buldric mentions) it spits out some message from Mallet in the future to himself in the past? Could Mallet then resolve not to send that message when the "time" comes, thus somehow erasing the note that appeared. Or would he somehow be compelled to send it in the future? Or would that note necessarily be from one of the multiverses where Mallet did indeed choose to send it back. This would a split from the universe where Mallet resolved not to send it.

So,.... do we have free will, or not? If so, can we change the future based on knowledge from the future which would change the knowledge in the future which would change our knowledge in the past, etc., etc.

And, if a note to Mallet in the past came through from Mallet in the future, does that imply that past, present and future all exist.... period. This would be in line with many scientists theories that all of spacetime exists and that all of us are simply like the actors in a movie - the movie exists in it's entirety, but the actors (as captured by the movie frames) only experience one movie frame at a time and only happen to remember the past and not the future because of the arrow of time.

Back To The Future! Gaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!

[Buldric]

Heh, you hit upon the part of the theory VERY few people like to talk about. Yes, the theory of multiple or parallel universes, if "true" states that humans do NOT have free will of choice, as according to this theory, we make EVERY possible choice. Unless you try to say that only one of the parallel universes is the "true" universe with the soul(s), and makes choices, and the rest are soulless copies. Who is then to say that our current universe of awareness is the true on and not the copies? For if they are indeed constantly splitting parallel universes, then they must act, and even think cognitively just as much as we do. And then if this is true, there is then morally nothing wrong with traveling to other times (aka. parallel universes) and commiting random atrocities as they are nothing but hollow husk copies! So we must then have faith not to have faith! To believe in parallel universes, you must believe in either lack of choice (therefore "soul") or you must believe in "unliving" beings. Either way you go, the science is fairly "anti-religion", but hey, what science isn't? It's a fairly brutal and blunt face of science, and no one likes to bring it up, but to know how the bad guy ends up in jail, you must know all the clues to convict him! Clear Skies, Buldric

[dmill1220]

Originally Posted by Buldric

Heh, you hit upon the part of the theory VERY few people like to talk about. Yes, the theory of multiple or parallel universes, if "true" states that humans do NOT have free will of choice, as according to this theory, we make EVERY possible choice. Unless you try to say that only one of the parallel universes is the "true" universe with the soul(s), and makes choices, and the rest are soulless copies. Who is then to say that our current universe of awareness is the true on and not the copies? For if they are indeed constantly splitting parallel universes, then they must act, and even think cognitively just as much as we do. And then if this is true, there is then morally nothing wrong with traveling to other times (aka. parallel universes) and commiting random atrocities as they are nothing but hollow husk copies! So we must then have faith not to have faith! To believe in parallel universes, you must believe in either lack of choice (therefore "soul") or you must believe in "unliving" beings. Either way you go, the science is fairly "anti-religion", but hey, what science isn't? It's a fairly brutal and blunt face of science, and no one likes to bring it up, but to know how the bad guy ends up in jail, you must know all the clues to convict him! Clear Skies, Buldric

Hi Buldric,

You are absolutely correct about the parallel Universe Scenario, but here is a kicker, I'm sure you have heard of Steven Hawking's last meeting?
And I am sure you have heard of Hawking Radiation.

One of the basic principles of Physics is that information can never be lost, this is one of the problems with Black holes, Mr Hawking's last speech tried to explain this away by saying that information is not lost in a black hole because there are parallel Universes where no Black holes exist, thus no information is truly lost ,its in another parallel universe.

As expected this did not go over too well with the theorists in attendance. he has come full circle with the problem he introduced many years ago with this current theory.

Dennis

[Blue Fire]

Dennis,

Hawking's last meeting? I'm afraid I haven't kept up on him for the last couple of years. Do you have any links or anything for more info on this meeting? He used to be a hero of mine. I suppose I could research him myself, but it's sooo much easier to pick somebody else's brain.

[dmill1220]

Hi Blue,

I can't remember if the show I saw was on the history channel or the science channel, but they show him at a conference and he actually stated in his electronic voice that information is not truly lost in a black hole, and that Hawking radiation cannot fully account for this information paradox, and the information may be appearing in another parralled Universe or Space that can never be seen from our space.
Apparently either the show was outdated or he has changed his position somewhat , I just found one of his most recent papers, http://www.hawking.org.uk/text/public/warps.html
http://www.hawking.org.uk/pdf/time.pdf

Dennis