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Professor Predicts Human Time Travel This Century
With a brilliant idea and equations based on Einstein’s relativity theories, Ronald Mallett from the University of Connecticut has devised an experiment to observe a time traveling neutron in a circulating light beam. 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.
Black holes, wormholes, and cosmic strings – each of these phenomena has been proposed as a method for time travel, but none seem feasible, for (at least) one major reason. Although theoretically they could distort space-time, they all require an unthinkably gigantic amount of mass.
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.
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“As physicists, our experiments deal with subatomic particles,” said Mallett. “How soon humans will be able to time travel depends largely on the success of these experiments, which will take the better part of a decade. And depending on breakthroughs, technology, and funding, I believe that human time travel could happen this century.”
“The Grandfather Paradox [where you go back in time and kill your grandfather] is not an issue,” said Mallett. “In a sense, time travel means that you’re traveling both in time and into other universes. If you go back into the past, you’ll go into another universe. As soon as you arrive at the past, you’re making a choice and there’ll be a split. Our universe will not be affected by what you do in your visit to the past.”
Originally posted by sardion2000
However when it does come to time travel, or "sliding" as is the case here, any discussion is rife with assumptions and leaps of faith.
Originally posted by sardion2000
1st is the regular go back in time and kill your own grandparents before they have your parents and distroy the universe in an infinite paradox loop.
One thought that makes my head hurt here is; If you went back and killed your grandparents, that would render you obsolete(?) right? But if so then how could one travel back to stop being born in the first place if one did not exist?? ( Hope you see my point here )
Originally posted by Rasobasi420
So, once you go back, there is no going back? If you create a new timeline once you go back, what's the point of going back unless for personal gain in an alternate universe.
Originally posted by Umbrax
If a “time machine” is made the changes to our life would be unimaginable.