the grandfather paradox.

Today I was mostly thinking about the grandfather paradox and how complicated it is. I will explain it so’s to make for a decent post. It goes like this, if you go back in time and kill your grandfarther it would result in the death of you, as your dad would not be born thus meaning you would not be born, but then you have to ask question if you are not born, who went back in time and killed your grandfather. It gets a little more complicated when people try and get around the problem by putting it down to parallel universes.

Time Travel.

An article on Ronald Mallett recently caught my eye, as it was suggested that he was on his way to making the worlds first time machine. I obviously read on to find that he was an american professor of physics who has wanted to make a time machine since his farther died of a heart attack when he was aged 10. I have a vague understanding of what he is getting at. In order to travel in time you need to travel faster than the speed of light, Mallett thinks he can achive this by circulating a laser beam thats temperature is hotter than the sun. By doing this he thinks that this will spin space (and time). By dropping and object into this swirling space he things he will be able to send messages back in time to the point where the time machine is switched on.

I want to do a little more research into the area as there are many theorys about the subject and theres is a number of possibilites to develop for a magazine.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Mallett