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Travel To The Future | The First Time Machine

10/29/2009 | By Diana Adams
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Like almost all great inventions, this one stems from the dream of a child. This is the story of a ten year old boy who watched his beloved father die suddenly and his life long quest to find a way to reunite with him.

Ronald Mallet has devoted his entire life to the study of time travel. After receiving his doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania, he began engaging in very intense research involving black holes, physics, and of course, the concept of time travel.

Fast forward several decades and now Ronald is building the first ever time machine. I know, I know, it sounds crazy, but I can’t help think that is what people thought of the first airplane, the first car and the first train when it was being built. Who knows if this is something that would ever work, but as a physics buff, it sure is fun to read about.

Ronald is definitely not considered wacko by his colleagues. He has been featured as recently as last month on NBC’s “Today Show” (see the article and video here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/09/is-time-travel-possible-a_n_280388.html) and he has also made an appearance on ABC’s “Good Morning America.” This is all in addition to dozens of magazines, newspapers, radio shows and online articles that have featured him and his work.

Currently a professor of physics at the University of Connecticut, Ron has a very strong theory about what is possible in the realm of time travel. For example, he realizes now that he will not be able to be reunited with his father since a time machine will only allow you to go into the future and then back, but only as far back as to the day that the time machine was activated, not further back than that.

Most of Ron’s work is based on his theory involving space-time twisting by light. You can view the concept diagram of his theory on his website at http://www.phys.uconn.edu/~mallett/main/main.htm.

Ronald Mallet was featured in a Discovery channel documentary called “The First Time Machine.” Here is an excerpt from that documentary:

So, what do you think, is this for real? I am open minded to everything that is possible, and I want to believe that it is.

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Author: Diana Adams

By day, Diana is the CEO/owner of Adams Consulting Group, Inc, a technology services and business solutions consultancy firm serving the specific needs of its clients in advertising and public relations. By night, she lives and breathes by writing. After publishing a small cookbook last year, she is now working on her new masterpiece, scheduled for publishing next year. “I could write all night long and not get tired of it. I think that is when you know you’ve tapped into a true passion. Whatever that thing may be, if you could do it all day or night long, lose track of time, ‘wake up’ ten hours later, and still thirst for more, that is a passion, and I feel like I’ve found that in my writing.” Diana also spends many hours each week assisting the homeless men and women in Atlanta. You can find her on Twitter at @adamsconsulting.


4 Comments

Tom Hartman

October 29th, 2009

I first saw this documentary last year and I’ve been eager for more news about it. Without getting into the issue of time paradoxes, I believe that this machine has the potential of revealing the multi-dimensional quality of reality.

Or in other words, I think this experiment will show that there isn’t only one timeline, but that all timelines exist and that the future, present and past are all “occuring” simultaneously in the Now.

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Diana Adams

October 30th, 2009

Tom,

I have studied the physics behind the concept of time for many years. I believe that there are a lot of things about the concept of “time” that we do not understand, and a lot of things that we take for granted about it which are false.

I have also read the theory that you are describing above and I too am looking forward to watching this progress.

Thanks for the comment!

Diana

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Tom Hartman

October 30th, 2009

You’re absolutely right Diana, when it comes to Time there must be much more to discover than what we know already. I can’t wait to see what we uncover!

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Joseph Schell

November 6th, 2009

If Ronald is able to achieve even a minor success (is there such a thing as a minor time travel success?) the effects will reach far beyond time travel and the related physics. Our current age, call it the digital or silicon age if you will, has expanded based upon a consistent improvement of existing processes. I suppose all ages follow this basic structure, a series of events and inventions spawned from a common inspirational or technological innovation. Major leaps take place every 100 years or so.

Which brings me to my point. Time travel, confirming extraterrestrial life, settling the first off-world colony, any number of major jumps could spawn a second Renaissance. In the wake of any major shift in the perspective we have on the limits of our technology (or lack thereof) the rapid increase in ideas and teams focused on those ideas represent the true value in such a leap of science.

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