Physicist Hopes to See Time Travel in Near Future; Uconn Professor Plans Tests, Insists His Theory Is Not Science Fiction

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Ronald L. Mallett didn't reveal his desire to build a time machine for decades, fearing that he would be labeled a crackpot by fellow physicists.

But that's all in the past.

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Physicist Hopes to See Time Travel in Near Future; Uconn Professor Plans Tests, Insists His Theory Is Not Science Fiction

Now Mallett, professor of physics at the University of Connecticut, is poised to conduct an experiment that could confirm his concept of a device that could bend time back on itself -- the essential job of a time machine.

Mallett has calculated that a circulating beam of laser light should produce enough gravity to twist space. With the energy stepped up, the swirling space should yield closed time loops.

A closed time...

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