(ORDO NEWS) — A scientist who became a physicist due to the loss of his father proposed the design of a time machine.
Professor Ronald Mallet lost his father at the age of 9 in 1955, the man died of a heart attack at a relatively young age.
At the age of 10, the boy read The Time Machine by HG Wells, which describes time travel, and decided to become a physicist in order to invent its analogue, return to 1955 and save his father.
Mallett’s scientific career was successful, he was able to defend his doctoral dissertation and study black holes, and now he is an emeritus professor at the University of Connecticut.
Now Mallett, in his own words, understood the principle of time travel and found a way to implement it. In order to bend the space-time continuum, it is necessary to build a rotating circle of laser radiation.
“It turns out that rotating black holes can create gravitational fields that cause time loops to appear, allowing you to travel into the past.
Unlike an ordinary black hole, a rotating black hole has two event horizons (a surface that limits the space from which electromagnetic radiation cannot escape), an inner one and an outer one.
Between these two event horizons, inertial reference frames are dragged, a phenomenon predicted by Einstein’s Theory of Relativity,” he says.
Since humanity will never be able to artificially obtain a black hole in the foreseeable future, the physicist proposed replacing it with rotating laser radiation.
“Light can create gravity… and if gravity can affect time, then light itself can also affect time,” Mallett explains.
As an illustration, the scientist draws a square with arrows on the sides, “rotating” in one direction. As a result, a time loop should be formed, allowing time travel.
This invention has three key drawbacks. First, it is an abstract theoretical concept that has not been confirmed in practice.
Secondly, according to critics, its implementation will require a laser ring the size of the visible universe and the energy of the stars of many galaxies, with which the author agrees.
In addition, travel back in time will be limited to the time the loop is created, meaning you can’t go back to 1955 anyway.
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