1. Ronald Lawrence Mallett was born on March 30,1945 and is an American theoretical physicist, academic and author.
15 Facts About Ronald Mallett
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Ronald Mallett has been a faculty member of the University of Connecticut since 1975 and is best known for his position on the possibility of time travel.
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Ronald Mallett served in the United States Air Force for four years, during the Vietnam War.
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In 1973, when he was 28 years old, Ronald Mallett earned his Ph.
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Ronald Mallett is a member of both the American Physical Society and the National Society of Black Physicists.
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Ronald Mallett became an honorary member of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2005.
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In 1975, Ronald Mallett was appointed an assistant professor at the University of Connecticut.
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Ronald Mallett was promoted to full professor in 1987 and has received multiple academic honors and distinctions.
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Ronald Mallett first argued that the ring laser would produce a limited amount of frame-dragging which might be measured experimentally, saying:.
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In 2006, Ronald Mallett declared that the possibility of time travel using a method based on a circulating light beam could be verified within the following decade.
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Ronald Mallett used general relativity to attempt to substantiate his claims.
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Ronald Mallett created a prototype illustrating how lasers could be used to create a circulating beam of light that twists space and time, and has an equation which he claimed supports his theory.
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One of their objections is that the spacetime which Ronald Mallett used in his analysis contains a singularity even when the power to the laser is off, which would not be expected to arise naturally if the circulating laser were activated in previously empty space.
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At one point, Ronald Mallett agreed that in vacuum, the energy requirements would be impractical but noted that the energy required goes down as the speed of light goes down.
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Ronald Mallett then argued that if the light is slowed down significantly by passing it through a medium, the needed energy would be attainable.