Theoretically, a beam of laser light could create a time spiral that could allow one to travel into the past, albeit only to a certain point.
While time travel is still the stuff of science fiction, a physics professor from the University of Connecticut named Ron Mallett recently suggested that maybe not today but eventually, it could happen.
Future time travel may no longer be a fantasy.
Mallett told CNN that his work is based primarily on general relativity and on special relativity by Albert Einstein, who said that “time can be affected by speed.” .
Referring to the sci-fi movie Planet of the Apes, where astronauts travel to Earth’s post-apocalyptic future on a rocket traveling near the speed of light, an accurate representation of special relativity. Einstein’s distinction says that you are traveling fast enough, respectively you are traveling through time , so one can also rotate time in a loop and thus go into the past in some way.
“It turned out that my understanding of lasers ultimately helped me in my breakthrough with the understanding of how I could find a whole new way to the foundation of a time machine,” said Mallett. speak. “By studying the type of gravitational field generated by the ring laser, this could lead to a new look at the possibilities of a time machine based on a periodic light beam.”
Saying that would provide a theoretical equation that would prove this would work for education, Professor Mallett argued that a cyclic laser beam could act like a time machine and cause a Time spiral allows you to travel back in time.