Time travel, uh... Just around the corner?
Little do you know, spinning lasers and coffee are going to help us humans travel back in time!
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.
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OK, human time travel this century! Or could it be, maybe, that Dr. Mallett could do more than build a spinning laser with the kind of funding he wants?
A Mallett quote from the article:
"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."
Presumably he expects the experiments will be successful, otherwise who would fund them? And breakthroughs come through experimentation, right? It sounds like the technology is there, as he demonstrates with the 'coffee analogy' in the article.
OK, so here's the deal: if we fund his desktop laser spinner properly then we could be murdering our grandfathers within the century.
I think it is a load of bullshit, but it stirs the imagination.
