A University of Connecticut physics professor is building a machine that he hopes will be able to transport things to the future or past.
\I'm not a nut. ?? I would think I was a crackpot, too, if there weren't other colleagues I knew who were working on it. This isn't Ron Mallett's theory of matter'it's Einstein's theory of relativity. I'm not pulling things out of the known laws of physics.""
Mallett will attempt to test whether it's possible to transport a subatomic particle through time using a ring of light.
The scientist's hope is that energy from a rotating laser beam may warp the space inside the ring of the light so gravity forces the neutron to rotate sideways. With more energy, Mallett believes it's possible a second neutron would appear'the first one visiting itself from the future.
While admitting that sending a human through time may need more energy than scientists currently know how to harness, Mallett says that's just ""an engineering problem."" Mallett hopes to have a working model to begin experiments this fall.
