Scientists hotly debate the concept of time travel. Some suggest that travel to the future is theoretically possible. While going into the past is an unrealistic desire. But this researcher indicates that he was able to develop a laser machine capable of making this trip.
- Ronald Mallet was working on a time machine that used rotating lasers to travel through time.
- It is based on Albert Einstein’s 1905 theory of relativity, which classifies spacetime as relative.
- The machine Mallet devised is theoretically capable of bending time, allowing travel to be as far as the moment the machine is triggered;
Now 77 years old, Mallet is a former professor of physics at the University of Connecticut who has been passionate about time travel since he was about 10 years old, when his father passed away. This passion for building a mechanism that allows you to travel into the past arose after he read “The Time Machine” by H.G. Wells, and saw the possibility of going back in time to save his father from a heart attack.
A big inspiration for him to develop the machine was black holes, more specifically spinning black holes, which are capable of allowing something called frame drag, or space-time drag. This is because they have two event horizons, one external and one internal.
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The physicist’s idea is to create an artificial black hole. He believes that the ring laser will allow the creation of a gravitational field that allows the creation of time loops. The prototype he created is capable of shooting beams of light with continuous rotation, and has been in operation since 2019. According to him, in response to the Guardian, if “light can create gravity and if gravity can affect time, then gravity itself can light.” affect time.”
Suppose you have a cup of coffee in front of you right now. Start by stirring the coffee with a spoon. It started spinning, right? This is what a spinning black hole does. In Einstein’s theory, space and time are linked. That is why it is called space-time. So, as the black hole rotates, it will cause a warp in time.
Ronald Mallet, in response to Watchman
Some critics claim that Mallet’s time machine must be as large as the known universe, which is impossible. However, the physicist is more optimistic, comparing himself to the Wright brothers, who are said to have built the plane.
First, they actually built a wind tunnel to determine the best configurations for aircraft wings. When it comes to a time machine, we need to build a wind tunnel before we think about building an airplane.
Ronald Mallet
He even reasoned that thinking about the size of his time machine now would be like asking the Wright brothers to think about how to get humanity to the moon, right after the first flight of the glider he designed. He concludes his responses to criticism by saying that whatever the size, the concept has already been done, and that it includes laser beams.
Mallet believes that his idea is really promising, but she will not be able to take him as far as he intended, in 1955, when his father died. This is because if the device works, it will allow you to go back in time to the moment the episode was played, in the year 2019.
Despite this, he remains hopeful about what the rotary laser machine can do specifically regarding Covid-19 and natural disasters.
Let’s say this device has already been working for a few years, and now we have a drug that can treat Covid. Imagine if we could accurately predict when an earthquake or tsunami would hit. For me, it opened the door to that possibility.
Ronald Mallet
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