Astrophysicist Ron Mallet claims he’s figured out the equation for time travel.
Let me go back in time to get you up to speed on time travel.
It’s not possible! There, now you know everything you need to know about any equation for time travel.
How do I know this? People much smarter than me have said so.
A few of the arguments against time travel include the snarky quip that time travel must not be possible otherwise we’d already be doing it. I’m not a fan of this one, because it could just be an incredibly well kept secret, like the recipe for KFC’s fried chicken, and what really happened in Roswell, New Mexico.
The next argument for time travel being impossible is the second law of thermodynamics, which says that heat can’t move from a reservoir of lower temperature to a reservoir of higher temperature in a cyclic process.
Then we have Albert Einstein’s special theory of relativity that states that the same laws of physics hold true in all inertial reference frames, and that the speed of light is the same for all observers, even those moving with respect to one another.
Hard to argue against Einstein!
Then we have a common sense argument against time travel. Even if it “was possible” it would require an insane amount of energy, and the world simply doesn’t have the excess capacity that would be needed to actually conduct time travel even if it was possible.
Back to Astrophysicist Ron Mallet and his formula.
Ron Mallet “says that his idea of a time machine centers around an “intense and continuous rotating beam of light” that can manipulate gravity. A device built by him, following his equation, would use a ring of lasers to mimic the effects of a black hole, which appears to distort space and time around them.”
I’m not buying what he’s selling, and besides, has he even thought about the “consistency paradox” or “grandfather paradox” which occurs when the past is changed in any way which then creates a contradiction. The most common example that people use in their arguments against time travel is that if you somehow do travel into the past and do something to alter what happened in the past like saving Ron Mallet’s father from dying, then that would affect the future. If his father never died, then he wouldn’t have had any reason to ever dedicate his life to creating a time machine to go back and save his father.
You can’t escape the time travel conundrum.
Time travel equation: Astrophysicist claims he finally figured it out