Send a message to the past is possible according to Ronald Mallet

29 Oct Send a message to the past is possible according to Ronald Mallet

We recover an article by the great time on doctor obsessed with travel in time Ronald Mallet:

The Dr. Ronald Mallett It is a famous theoretical physicist of the University of Connecticut, once when I was child fell into their hands a copy of "The machine of time" of HG Wells. The father of Ronanld Mallet He died when he was 10 years old, and reading this book one year later, the idea of time travel to prevent the death of his father, gripped his imagination.

It was not a passing fad. He studied physics at the University, with a special interest in black holes. Imagined that the understanding of the negrospodria holes help you understand the journey back in time. By that time, the black holes were considered "crazy, but at least one legitimate insanity," said Ronald Mallett; but to the journey back in time, on the other hand, considered him "locura locura".

"I've used the black holes in a cover story," he said with a laugh.

Albert Einstein described time as a fourth dimension and said that time and space are connected by means of what physicists call space-time. He is said that space/time curves are folded and revolve around black holes. Ronald Mallett asked if it would be possible to reproduce these conditions on Earth.

A couple of coincidences helped him to discover how to do it.

When he graduated from the University, he wanted to immediately begin their investigation, but was a time of recession and universities not hired easily. He ended up working with lasers, learning about cutting capabilities for industrial use. After two years in this job, he got employment originally wanted to at the University of Connecticut.

To understand the progress of your research, you need to understand two of Einstein's theories:

1. in accordance with the special theory of the relativity of Einstein, time is affected by the speed. It has already been shown in the laboratory that subatomic particles can be thrown forward at high speeds. We used a particle accelerator known that disintegrate after a certain period of time. The particles appear in the future in a new State without having disintegration during the usual period. The aging of the particles decreases as they accelerate.

2. in accordance with the theory of the General relativity of Einstein, time is also affected by gravity. It is already proven that satellites in orbit clocks show a slight difference of time with watches of the Earth if you do not update them to be compensated.

The Dr. Ronald Mallett I knew that gravity could affect at the time, and that light could create gravity. He mused and mused, and then in turn hit "Eureka". X-ray laser!

He recalled of his previous work with lasers that a ring laser creates working light. "Maybe the circulating light would do the same with the gravity that a black hole in rotation", thought. Asked if a ring laser could be used to turn the time/space in a circle present, future and return to the past.

If the laser could create such circle, the information could be sent to the past in binary form. The neutrons rotate, explained Ronald Mallet. A string of neutrons could be arranged so that some neutrons were up and others down, representing 1s and 0s, respectively, thus creating a binary message.

Yes the Dr. Ronald Mallett I would have found the research work who wanted to leave the University, he had not worked with lasers or would have acquired this knowledge helped him after so many years. "I had something in my experience that my colleagues who are working in that area did not have, so was my experience that took me to that advance that otherwise never had", said Dr. Mallett.

Now, the hardest part: test this theory with mathematical equations. There is where it entered the second match. Dr. Mallett was diagnosed with a heart disease little until inspiration induce him to use the ring of lasers to travel back in time. He was given medical because of overwork.

Without having to teach or perform functions in the University Commission, he was free to concentrate fully on their research.

"If I had not had this time, I don't know if it would have been able to not only move, but also have the necessary time to solve it", said the Dr. Ronald Mallett.

It took six months show that the circular light would bend space. Cost him a couple of years prove that the curvature of space could also bend time. Although it was a long, laborious, effort the Dr. Ronald Mallett He pointed out that Einstein took 10 years to prove that gravity affects time.

"It was worth... to actually see the equations, and see what they predict [is possible to travel in time] is something exciting," said the Dr. Ronald Mallett. The next excitement came when a scientific journal published its first article on the journey back in time.

With fear, presented their findings to relativity experts during a conference organized by the international society of General Relativity and gravitation. He was particularly nervous to speak of the journey back in time in the presence of the Dr. Bryce DeWitt, a sensible prominent physicist who worked with Einstein. The Dr. DeWitt spoke just before the Dr. Ronald Mallett, a task difficult to fulfill.

At the end of the presentation by Dr. Mallett, the Dr. DeWittHowever, stood up to all the audience and said: "I don't know if you will have the opportunity to see his father again, but he would be proud of you".

In a short sentence, honored their years of work, made ambitions reality, and the fulfillment of their initial plans. Although he dreamed as a child to prevent his father's death, he feels that the discoveries that made motivated by the memory of his father are more than sufficient.

His father was the subject of great love and admiration in the life of the young Dr. Ronald Mallett. His mother worked hard to keep Mallett and his three brothers in the neighborhood of the Bronx, New York City. It wasn't easy, especially in the Decade of 1950, for an African American woman living and contemplate his family fall into poverty. He realized how difficult that must have been for her, with only 30 years of age, losing a heart attack so young to her husband and work to raise their children.

The Dr. Ronald Mallett He wrote on his personal path as well as his discovery in his book, "Time Traveler: Personal Mission of a scientist to realize the" Journey back in time”.

How long it will take to construct a time machine?

We must make it clear that the Dr. Ronanld Mallett It is not playing in your garage with a Delorean or a flow condenser as Doc Brown in the "Back to the future". He is a theoretical physicist, not an experimental physicist. That means that he developed the mathematical evidence that time travel into the future should work, but the experimental physicists who have to develop the hardware and build the time machine.

That could cost $250,000 just for starters, he said Ronald Mallett. The $250,000 would cover the feasibility study, and this would determine how much it cost the pilot phase.

They are making donations to the Foundation of the University of Connecticut. "To date there have been contributions from nearly 11,000 dollars from a number of generous donors ranging between 15 and 25 dollars of enthusiastic students from middle grade and high school, and $500 of a young couple interested, from $1,000 of a widowed father", said the Cosmetic Mallett.

It is expected that once you start the feasibility study, the entire process can last about five years.

Philosophical questions

If a day is built a time machine based on the design of the doctor Ronald MallettWhat can happen when the switch is activated? A future message could appear instantly.

The time machine would only be able to send information along the time line since turned for the first time, even when it turns off. So, if maintained for 100 years, binary messages could be sent at any time during that period of time. Someone in the future could know that the machine is activated at a certain date and send a message through that time.

In a documentary by the BBC-Discovery Channel where presented the work of Dr. Mallett, the narrator said that with the journey back in time"is at stake nothing less that what means to be a human being".

If we could go back in time and fix all the suffering in the world, if we could go back and avoid the bad things that happen in our lives, what should be done for personal growth and wisdom? How would it change our society?

The Dr. Ronald Mallett He said that the "Time Cop" film, starring Jean-Claude Van Damme, explored this idea well. The character of Van Damme was in charge of controlling the journey back in time so people may not use it for their own purposes. His wife died and had to contain himself for not saving her.

"Up the society to decide how to use the" journey back in time", does not depend on an individual's", said the Cosmetic Mallett. The large Hadron Collider (LHC in English), the largest and most powerful of the world particle accelerator, is run by a consortium of Nations. He imagines is a machine that can be controlled in a similar way. Cannot imagine machines of the time turned into things as common as nuclear reactors. People don't have time machines in their backyards for casual use.

For the Dr. Ronald Mallett, the best use of the travel time would be the warn people about natural disasters, to prevent, for example, the thousands of deaths caused by the tsunamis and hurricanes.

Time ago I wrote an article about Ronald Mallet introductory mode on its peculiar history and obsession. It certainly is one of my favorite scientists, and I hope to get his commitment to pass through time.

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