天體物理學(xué)家聲稱發(fā)明了時間機器

天體物理學(xué)家聲稱發(fā)明了時間機器

Time travel may soon be possible, according to an astrophysicist who believes he’s worked out a way to build a time machine.

根據(jù)一位天體物理學(xué)家的說法，時間旅行可能很快就會成為可能。

Professor Ron Mallett from the University of Connecticut in the US claims to have written a scientific equation that could be used to create a device that takes people back in time.

美國康涅狄格大學(xué)的教授Ron Mallett聲稱，他已經(jīng)寫了一個科學(xué)方程式，可以用來創(chuàng)造一種讓人回到過去的裝置。

The Physics expert told CNN that he’s already built a prototype to illustrate how the key component of his machine would work.

這位物理專家告訴CNN，他已經(jīng)建立了一個原型來演示他的機器的關(guān)鍵組件如何工作。

However, Mallett’s peers are said to be unconvinced by his proposals.

然而，據(jù)說馬萊特的同僚們并不相信他的建議。

His machine is based around Albert Einstein’s theory of special relativity, which says that time accelerates or decelerates according to the speed at which an object is moving.

他的機器基于阿爾伯特·愛因斯坦的狹義相對論，該理論認為時間的加速或減速取決于物體移動的速度。

For example, if you were on a spacecraft traveling at the speed of light then the theory suggests time would be moving slower for you than people back on Earth.

這個理論表明，如果你在一艘以光速飛行的宇宙飛船上，時間會比地球上的人走得慢。

If you were then to return to Earth having travelled in space for less than a week at this speed, Einstein theorizes that 10 years would have passed on Earth while you were gone.

如果你以這樣的速度在太空中旅行了不到一周就返回地球，愛因斯坦的理論是，當你離開地球時，地球上已經(jīng)過去了10年。

Most physicists accept that this form of time travel could be possible.

大多數(shù)物理學(xué)家認為這種形式的時間旅行是可能的。

Time traveling to the past is faced with much more skepticism but Mallett thinks that lasers could be the solution.

回到過去的時間旅行面臨著更多的質(zhì)疑，但馬萊特認為激光可以解決這個問題。

His theory relies on an additional Einstein’s theory that states massive objects can bend space-time.

他的理論基于愛因斯坦的另一個理論，即大質(zhì)量物體可以彎曲時空。

According to Einstein, the stronger the gravity, the slower time passes.

根據(jù)愛因斯坦的理論，引力越大，時間過得越慢。

Mallett told CNN: “If you can bend space, there’s a possibility of you twisting space.

Mallett告訴CNN:“如果你能彎曲空間，你也有可能扭曲空間。”

“In Einstein’s theory, what we call space also involves time — that’s why it’s called space time, whatever it is you do to space also happens to time. By studying the type of gravitational field that was produced by a ring laser, this could lead to a new way of looking at the possibility of a time machine based on a circulating beam of light.”

“在愛因斯坦的理論中，我們所說的空間也包括時間——這就是為什么它被稱為時空，無論你對空間做什么，時間也會發(fā)生變化。通過研究環(huán)形激光器產(chǎn)生的重力場類型，這可能會導(dǎo)致一種新的方式來研究基于循環(huán)光束的時間機器的可能性。”