I have something to tell you that you're
going to find hard to believe: time travel is possible and I'm going to tell
you how. Einstein's theory is the core of my work, and Einstein said that time can be altered. OK, let's pause. Dr. Ron Mallett is a
retired research professor of physics at the University of Connecticut. He is an
expert on Einstein's theories. So my work is based on Einstein's general theory of
relativity, how gravity can affect time. And what I did was I solved Einstein's
gravitational field equations for a circulating beam of laser light. Now,
let's rewind. Ron's story doesn't start here, in the present. His interest in time
was sparked at a young age. Let's take a travel back through time.
I was raised in Bronx, New York. This is my mother Dorothy and my father
Boyd Mallett. My father was a television repairman and I sort of always thought
of my father as the television repairman to the stars. We didn't know that he had
a weak heart and he died of a massive heart attack when he was only 33 years
old. It turned my world upside down, inside out, everything became black,
everything became terrible. And about a year after he died, I came across the
book that changed my life, H.G. Wells' classic The Time Machine. It said that
scientific people know very well that time's a kind of space and we can move
forward and backward in time just as we can move forward and backward in space.
I thought, "This is what I need, I could go back into the past and see him again and
maybe save his life." But I knew I was gonna have to know something about science. I saw a cover of a book, the second book
that changed my life, The Universe and Dr. Einstein. So I got the book, it was
extremely rough going but I did get the essence. I thought if I could understand
when Einstein meant by the ways you could change time, then that might lead
to the scientific possibility of a time machine. Took me on a very, very long road.
Ron knew he had to get an education to achieve his dream, but he couldn't afford
it on his own, so he followed in his father's footsteps and joined the
service. Afterward he was able to use the GI Bill to go to college. Eventually I
did make a breakthrough many years later in the possibility of time travel. This
is my memoir, Time Traveler, that talks about the journey and how my father's
death led to me to develop the means of time travel based on using light. Ron is
not the only scientist studying the possibility of time travel
but he claims all of the research is based off of Einstein's theories.
I solved Einstein's gravitational field equations, which in a nutshell says that
time is affected by gravity. What he meant by that is that clocks slowed down
the stronger gravity is and the equation that I came up with showed that space
actually can be twisted by a circulating beam of light. Each one of these levels is a laser
square and there's a number of different levels to increase the amount of
twisting that we won't get if we send a neutron through that's spinning that
will actually cause the twisting of the neutron spin. And in principle you should
be able to twist time into a loop. If you can twist into a loop, you could go from
the future back to the past. Everyone has some interest in time because they all,
everyone thinks back to some thing that happened in their life that they wish
they could change again, for example in my case I wanted to go back in time to
see my father again and to try to tell him what was going to happen and maybe
save his life and change what was going to happen to us, and that's an interest
in time travel. And I think that that's basic and I think it's fundamental. I
think that goes back to the beginning of mankind. I'm not exaggerating about the
importance of funding for time travel. Einstein over 100 years ago
predicted ripples in space and it's only been recently that they were observed
and they led to the 2017 Nobel Prize. That cost 1.1 billion dollars
in the space programs. I mean, just to say, "Well, we want to travel to the moon."
That's a statement but in order to achieve it, it required billions of
dollars. People ask me all the time, "When it's time travel going to happen?" And my
answer to them is when we decide that we want to give it adequate funding. It's
not going to be done with a DeLorean in a garage, it's going to require teamwork,
scientific advances, it's gonna require funding on a large scale. For now, Ron
continues his research in time travel and he hopes that someday, in the not-so-distant future, he'll be able to complete his lifelong dream and build a
working time machine. Thanks for watching, and if you want to
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