Can We Really Travel in Time?
abracad, · Categories: science and spiritualityTime is simple enough to understand, isn’t it. It moves forward at constant rate. What’s gone is gone and can’t be changed. What’s to come hasn’t happened and can’t be known for certain until it does. And that’s it... Or is it...
On July 28th 2007 the Daily Mail carried a fascinating piece entitled “The real life Doctor Who who believes he can build a time machineâ€.
It tells the story of Ronald Mallett, an American physicist, who believes he really can use the laws of physics to turn back time.
Mallett is driven by memories of his father, who passed away prematurely as a result of his unhealthy lifestyle. He hopes to someday be able to travel back to his childhood to be able to warn his father to drink less, smoke les and exercise more in order to prolong his life.
Inspired by the science fiction of HG Wells and the work of Einstein, Mallett has already lived a remarkable life. Overcoming a deep sense of grief at his father’s passing, and the racism of the deep south, he became one of a small band of black men to earn a doctorate in physics in the USA and remains the country’s only black physics professor.
Remarkably the laws of physics do not appear to prevent time travel, and physicist Frank Tipler proposed a mechanism involving a superdense spinning cylinder in 1974. Unfortunately, current technology is unable to build such a cylinder.
Mallett’s approach is more practical and involves a circulating beam of light. He believes a prototype can be constructed for less than the price of an English house! The only limitation of Mallett’s machine is that it would only be able to transport one back to the point at which the machine was started.
Of course Mallett’s work raises all kinds of philosophical and Spiritual questions.
What if we were to go back and change the past in such a way that the present we are experiencing could no longer exist. In the extreme case we could kill our own parents before we were born... Or are we really into the sci-fi world of parallel universes?
And if time travel were really possible how come no one from the future has been to visit us?
Spiritual teachers frequently tell us that time is not as we perceive it and that in the world of Spirit time has no meaning. Could the possibility of time travel give an insight into the 4th dimension’s true nature?
Find out more about Mallett’s work in Time Traveler: A Scientist's Personal Mission to Make Time Travel a Reality by Ronald L. Mallett and Bruce Henderson.
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