Meet Ron Mallet, the astrophysicist trying to travel back in time
Ron Mallett, is an astrophysicist who has dedicated much of his adult life to the notion that time travel is possible. He's come up with the scientific equations and principles upon which he says a time machine could be created. The past, it has been said, is a foreign country. And sometimes it's another country we yearn to visit.
Mallett was aged 10 when his father died suddenly, of a heart attack, an event that the scientist says changed the track of his life forever. Mallett has also been theorizing about time travel, in the course of which he has embarked on his own personal journey: a complex and often contentious quest to build a machine capable of visiting the past.
After a couple of years of applying mathematical theories in this practical setting, Mallet joined the University of Connecticut as an assistant professor of physics. He was aware of the "mad professor" stereotype. He wanted to ensure his ambitions weren't ridiculed and his job threatened. It all hinges, says Mallett, on Einstein's special theory of relativity and general theory of relativity.Mallett gives the example of astronauts traversing space in a rocket that's traveling close to the speed of light. Time would pass differently on Earth than it would for the people in the rocket.
However, this is all about going forward not backward, so how would this help Mallett's quest to be reunited with his father? Mallett posits that by twisting time into a loop, one could travel from the future back to the past -- and then back to the future. And this is the idea of a wormhole, a sort of tunnel with two openings.He's created a prototype illustrating how lasers could be used to create a circulating beam of light that twists space and time -- inspired by his first job experimenting with lasers' effect on airplane jet engines.
Sutter says he is aware of Mallett's work, and thinks it's interesting, if not necessarily on track to deliver results. "It's not like the movies," says Mallett. "It's not going happen at the end of two hours, at the cost of whatever it is you pay for the movie ticket. It's going to cost."
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