天体物理学家声称发明了时间机器

天体物理学家声称发明了时间机器

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

根据一位天体物理学家的说法，时间旅行可能很快就会成为可能。

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.

美国康涅狄格大学的教授Ron Mallett声称，他已经写了一个科学方程式，可以用来创造一种让人回到过去的装置。

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

这位物理专家告诉CNN，他已经建立了一个原型来演示他的机器的关键组件如何工作。

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

然而，据说马莱特的同僚们并不相信他的建议。

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.

他的机器基于阿尔伯特·爱因斯坦的狭义相对论，该理论认为时间的加速或减速取决于物体移动的速度。

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.

这个理论表明，如果你在一艘以光速飞行的宇宙飞船上，时间会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.

如果你以这样的速度在太空中旅行了不到一周就返回地球，爱因斯坦的理论是，当你离开地球时，地球上已经过去了10年。

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

大多数物理学家认为这种形式的时间旅行是可能的。

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

回到过去的时间旅行面临着更多的质疑，但马莱特认为激光可以解决这个问题。

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

他的理论基于爱因斯坦的另一个理论，即大质量物体可以弯曲时空。

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

根据爱因斯坦的理论，引力越大，时间过得越慢。

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

Mallett告诉CNN:“如果你能弯曲空间，你也有可能扭曲空间。”

“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.”

“在爱因斯坦的理论中，我们所说的空间也包括时间——这就是为什么它被称为时空，无论你对空间做什么，时间也会发生变化。通过研究环形激光器产生的重力场类型，这可能会导致一种新的方式来研究基于循环光束的时间机器的可能性。”