Whats wrong with Roger Mallett's theory of bending light with lasers to create a loop in time? I understand he doesnt have the equipment but is there anything missing or wrong with the theory that we havent done it yet?
2007-05-04 16:11:36 · 4 answers · asked by optik_0v3rd0se 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Physics
think about this. To bend light in a circle is very much like amplifying a sound by placing the microphone infront of the speaker. All you hear is whine.
Just because matter is moving in a circle doesnt affect time.
At best, if you could "see" faster than the speed of light...
well maybe you would see forewards in time... but how is that even possible?
Time is only a relative measure of matter moving. Really it is
very much like measuring distance travelled.
How can you warp from New Jersey to Rhode Island without
1.) breaking down the mass into its simplest forms and transporting it at the speed of light to destination where it is reformulated into the original mass.
2.) calculating the mass of one object, and then creating it with entirely different matter at destination while simultaneously destroying the first.
This theory must be based in quantum physics, because they are apparently thinking there is something present that they have not observed.
How would Time itself => for the entire universe: be altered by a single ray of light within the mass of it all?
Can time be relevant to only a particular location without any effect whatsoever on the rest?
There is no time.
There is only cause and effect.
We perceive time.
But it is imaginary concept.
We relate it to counting revolutions and calculating movements of atoms.
This is not much different from saying a waveform of energy is fluctuating at 60 hertz.
60 hertz means nothing to the universe.
It is how we create meaning of the universe.
2007-05-04 16:28:33 · answer #1 · answered by Jeff B 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, using lasers you can bend light which will therefore create a longer distance for light to travel (than if not bent), therefore the light will travel faster and "through time". However, this doesn't provide any useful mechanism for humans nor does it create some kind of portal. This does help to explain that time travel may be possible, but only in the future direction and for short time periods (like seconds, maybe minutes in the future), but only during traveling at speeds near the speed of light, which we can't humanly create.
2007-05-04 23:17:08 · answer #2 · answered by jcann17 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The theory makes an assumption regarding parallel emissions.
2007-05-04 23:14:09 · answer #3 · answered by Peyton Manning 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is simple---it won't work.
2007-05-04 23:14:50 · answer #4 · answered by ttpawpaw 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋