Weekly Space Hangout: May 5, 2021 - Dr. Ronald Mallett, Professor Emeritus, UConn

This week we are airing Fraser's prerecorded interview with Dr. Ronald Mallett, Professor Emeritus and Research Professor of Physics at the University of Connecticut in Storrs.
Ron received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. in physics from the Pennsylvania State University. In 1975 he joined the physics faculty at the University of Connecticut in Storrs. His research interests include black holes, general relativity, quantum cosmology, and relativistic astrophysics. As part of his research, Ron has hypothesized that a rotating ring laser could, via frame dragging, sufficiently twist space and time to mimic the conditions inside a rotating Black Hole, potentially allowing a binary message (encoded in a neutrino stream) to be sent back in time. You can learn more about the theory behind Ron's hypothesis in this January 2020 Popular Mechanics article: www.popularmec...
Prof. Mallett has published numerous papers on black holes and cosmology in professional journals. His breakthrough research on time travel has been featured extensively in print and broadcast media around the world and has appeared in a feature-length documentary "How to Build a Time Machine" which won Best Documentary at the 2017 Philip K Dick Film Festival in New York City. The documentary is now available on Amazon Prime.
His published memoir “Time Traveler: A Scientist’s Personal Mission to Make Time Travel a Reality” has been translated into Korean, Chinese, Japanese and is currently in discussion become a major Hollywood motion picture.
To learn more about Ron and his research, visit his faculty website physics.uconn.....
You can also follow Ron on Facebook ( / ronald.l.mallett ) and Twitter ( / rlmallett .
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[@Graham.W571]

I actually enjoyed Dr Mallett's way of explaining the various theories.

[@franciscoathens924]

One of the most enlightening interviews I've seen. Dr. Mallett's work is amazing. Thank you Fraser for sharing him with us!

[@jakemiketta3868]

I hope 🤞 he can save his dad like he said

[@9999999944751ify]

Its bullshit

[@janelockleystellagrantmarc3243]

How can I contact Dr. Ronald Mallett, I am very interested on a specific topic , Thank you

[@jakemiketta3868]

Look his number up on Google

[@stand7074]

I Love it when very intelligent people seem totally normal and approachable.

[@9999999944751ify]

Lol

[@galaxia4709]

How is his podcast called, I couldn't understand? Thanks

[@tomgarcialmt]

This was awesome!

[@cryptolicious3738]

fantastic !

[@christophersmith49]

This should be called a yearly or once a 3 years space hangout. Last post is over 2 years old lol

[@Markle2k]

I loved this and hate Facebook. The last post on FB he made seems to be only a few years after mine. His is 6 November, 2016. We need a song from _They Might Be Giants_ titled _Emeritus Man Emeritus Man Does he keep up with his correspondence Emeritus Man_

[@watchison1]

I think he blew my mind.

[@YellowMisanthropist]

too bad we can't read the chat that was going on during this live stream

[@davidfrenzel6340]

Where is Ronald Mallett now?

[@jakemiketta3868]

In Connecticut. Why

[@jakemiketta3868]

I hope 🤞 Ronald’s lasers, the time machine, the past and the timeline WILL allow all the things I’ve been hoping and praying for such as going back in time into the past, to try to change the past, to see our young selves, to bring the cure for certain people’s cancer ♋️ or diseases before they died young, to warn certain people about their cancer ♋️ or diseases, to save certain people’s lives before they died, to bring things from the future to the past, to let our young selves still exist even when we do those things, to prevent the coronavirus from happening, and to be in the past for as much and as long as we like 👍, want and prefer. Also we should think 🤔 positive for those things to happen. Plus we should think 🤔 positive that Ronald will not have a limited amount of people to save, and we gotta think 🤔 positive that Ronald will not have a limited amount of things to do in the past because a limited amount is not fair.

[@josesj555]

Me too

[@hyper_dragon6302]

Time travel will be real soon 🔜. Time travel to the past will be possible soon 🔜. We need to thinking 🤔 positive

[@jakemiketta3868]

I think 🤔 that the laws of physics are just trying to stop 🛑 Ronald from fulfilling his dream 💭

[@Corvaire]

I don't even know where to start so I just won't bother. Your welcome. ;O)-

[@MiguelAngel_Romero]

wait, wait, wait, wait... wait, wait a moment... I thought that the very laws of phisics prohibited the idea of time travel to the past, but now I hear that all you need is a rapid spinning black hole or a high enough energy beam of light?! What about all the paradoxes? What did I miss Fraser?!! HELP!!

[@jakemiketta3868]

I hope 🤞 he can go back in time into the past and plus I think 🤔 to laws of physics is trying to stop 🛑 Ronald from fulfilling his dream 💭.

[@christophersmith49]

You can go into the past but an alternative past. It is still your future. In other words you can never return to your own time after you to go the past.once you fazt forward from that past you diverse and the further yoi go the more different that past looks from what you except. So you end in stuck in an alternative universe which coexists with the one you came from and every time you try to go back you just end up in another alternative universe of the block universe. So it will be very dangerous because you will find yourself in almost exact looking universe at first , even see yourself there younger but you will be a stranger in that universe. You will have no place no I'd or whatsoever. And if you do a slot of changes you might never exist in that alternative universe if you fast forward it then to the time you supposed to have been born. You end up in a parallel universe where everything can look the same.except.you never were both there, depending how far back you go and what you disturb with your presence or changr you do. The history in the original universe where you came from remains unchanged but in this parcel past universe you are now doing changes even if just dislocating molecules with your presence which might leads to bigger changes down the line. So you can go back in time but that past is basically still just your figure in a parallel universe and you wil never be able to return to the exact same universe and time you came from. And Everytime you go back in time you simply move into another parcel universe that now looks ever more different then the last you remember or know until after enought going into the past that past looks completely unrecognizable to you.

[@sohargultom6959]

He always on progress (making videos) but never getting closer to the purpose :'((

[@jakemiketta3868]

Just think 🤔 positive. :)

[@filmycomedy3700]

God please help build time machine

[@Corvaire]

No worries, China will most certainly steal that patent from god. At that point the world will unite to steal all of the patents they stole from everyone else & the imaginary friend. Following that a year later mankind will be stuck in a time loop.;O)-

[@sohargultom6959]

No away!

[@jakemiketta3868]

Yeah we need God, Joseph, Jesus and Mary’s help too to go back in time

[@jakemiketta3868]

@@sohargultom6959. You’re being negative and you’re overreacting

[@arturo652]

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