Travel back in time to a Purple Moment in your life: Really?

It is 5:30pm. There's a deadline to meet at 6. Half an hour left. Work worth 3 hours to be done. Aargh. If only I could make time travel slow, or travel back in time, so that I have those 3 hours to complete the work; but then, I would meet myself at this very same instant - 5:30pm, wanting to go back to that starting time of that alternate dimensional me... Yeah, I know, its confusing. But guess what?

Dr. Ronald Mallet, a Physicist at the University of Connecticut, is building a Time Machine, that will let me do just that; i.e. travel in time. Einstein's Relativity Theory (E=mc² is an outcome of this theory) laid the foundation of his research, and he built over it extrapollations and deductions, to end up with a way to alter the two quantities that matter most to scientists - space and time. This bending of space-time is the key to travel through time.

The time machine he is building, (or has he built it already? I'm not sure) uses ring laser to produce frame-dragging and close time-like curves, which are the very same means by which we can travel in time. In his own words,

"In Einstein's general theory of relativity, both matter and energy can create a gravitational field. This means that the energy of a light beam can produce a gravitational field. My current research considers both the weak and strong gravitational fields produced by a single continuously circulating unidirectional beam of light. In the weak gravitational field of a unidirectional ring laser, it is predicted that a spinning neutral particle, when placed in the ring, is dragged around by the resulting gravitational field."

"For the strong gravitational field of a circulating cylinder of light, I have found new exact solutions of the Einstein field equations for the exterior and interior gravitational fields of the light cylinder. The exterior gravitational field is shown to contain closed timelike lines.
The presence of closed timelike lines indicates the possibility of time travel into the past. This creates the foundation for a time machine based on a circulating cylinder of light."

The series of videos below is the documentary that was shown on Discover Channel. Before that, here is a small demo on Einstein's Relativity Theory, that might help you understand what Dr. Mallet explains in the documentary. You might also want to check out this link, which is more like "Einstein's Relativity Theory for Dummies"!

EINSTEIN'S RELATIVITY THEORY - SIMULTANEITY


Don't worry, the following documentary is not some fantasy stuff; its all about relativity, quantum physics, and all the other concepts that some of us didn't care to learn that well in school! ;) Luckily for us, he uses very simple and easy to understand examples. Apart from the examples and explanation of his theories, the documentary also contains opinions of several noteworthy people like The Time Machine movie director Simon Wells (incidentally, he's the great grandson of H. G. Wells who wrote the book (pdf) that movie is based on) and also discusses the consequencies of disturbing time in the past, and also the possibilities of such disturbances, which I found was interesting, to say the least.

You can also check out the following videos from the original Youtube Playlist.

THE WORLD'S FIRST TIME MACHINE - PART 1 OF 5


THE WORLD'S FIRST TIME MACHINE - PART 2 OF 5


THE WORLD'S FIRST TIME MACHINE - PART 3 OF 5


THE WORLD'S FIRST TIME MACHINE - PART 4 OF 5


THE WORLD'S FIRST TIME MACHINE - PART 5 OF 5


What was fantasy till now, is going to be a reality soon! Or have we already warped into the future?!
Think about it while I think which purple moment in history I'd like to go back to!

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