Time Traveler: A Scientist’s Personal Mission to Make Time Travel a Reality March 7, 2007
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Combining elements of Rocket Boys and Elegant Universe, Time Traveler follows Mallett’s discovery of Einstein’s work on space-time, his study of Godel’s work on a solution of Einstein’s equation that might allow for time travel, and his own research in theoretical physics spanning thirty years that culminated in his recent discovery of the effects of circulating laser light and its application to time travel.
The foundation for Mallett’s historic time-travel work is Einstein’s theory of general relativity, a sound platform for any physicist. Through his years of reading and studying Einstein, Mallett became a buff well before he had any notion of the importance of the grand old relativist’s theories to his own career. One interesting subtext to the story is Mallett’s identification with, and keen interest in, Einstein. Mallett provides easy-to-understand explanations of the famous physicist’s seminal work.
Customer Review: Outstanding work and life
what an incredible man and book, Ron Mallet turned what could have been
a sad negative life into an incredible race against time and in the process became an amazing scientist with the type of imagination Einstein
refered to as more important than intelligence.
This book is a wonderfull personal story about a man who dreamed of cheating time, to see his beloved father one more time.
I believe though i am not a scientist that his aproach is correct and just as matter bends space and therefore time with it so does energy.
Dor MAlltet would be astonished to watch the X-Men episodes were Forge an African-American hero uses a selfmade time machine which is a Tower of lasers through which Bishop the time traveler goes back in time to save the world.
Customer Review: Fascinating theory, inspiring life
Most recent books on time travel employ black holes or worm holes — things not really accessible to current science. Dr. Mallett’s work shows how circulating light can lead to “frame dragging” and to “closed time loops”. His mathematics has been investigated by his peers and not found to be inaccurate. What’s more, it should be possible to demonstrate the effect with contemporary apparatus (and building such is underway). While sending a person through such a device may be a long way off, the sending of a message from the future to us would seem to be feasible, once the apparatus is built. Such a message cannot be sent back before the machine was built, however. Thus if it were built now, we could receive messages from the future, for so long as the machine is kept on. Image if we could have recieved the message that no weapons of mass destruction were found in Iraq, before we invaded. Dr. Mallett tells his story well, not only clarifying the theory for the layman, but also relating his amazing and inspiring quest in search of a time machine. I highly recommend this book. Read more here …
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