Physicist believes we will travel through time in this century
June 20 2008 / by futuretalk / In association with Future Blogger.net
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By Dick Pelletier
University of Connecticut’s Dr. Ronald Mallett thinks he has
found a practical way to build a time machine using light. He hopes
to verify the concept within 10 years, and expects a machine built
this century. “No known laws of physics forbids time travel”,
Mallett says, “and in theory, shunting matter back and forth
through time shouldn’t be that difficult”. 
But what about wormholes, those clever little tunnels in
spacetime that supposedly enables travel from one moment to
another? Though wormholes seem a perfectly respectable way to
travel through time on paper, developing them would require
capturing energy from all 400 billion stars in our galaxy, a feat
that for now remains far out of reach to say the least.
Mallett however, who is a theoretical physics professor believes he has found a route to the past that uses something much more down to earth: light. His team discovered that light beams can create a vortex that force the past, present and future to circle one another until the future precedes the past.
Their research suggests that tiny bits of matter can be moved from the present to the past. And if it works for matter, in theory, it can transport us.
As you enter Mallet’s futuristic time machine, your mind senses that you are moving forward, but because of the spacetime vortex, you are actually going backwards through time. You can exit the machine at a preset time and place yourself somewhere in your past.
But journeying to the past opens controversies. Say for example, we travel back in time and prevent our parents from getting together: this would prevent us from being born; therefore we would not exist and our journey in time couldn’t happen. This creates a paradox – a past different from one that already exists. (cont.)
