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Brief History of Time Travel
April 5, 2002
Ronald L. Mallett professor, physics, UConn

Time travel may sound like the stuff of science fiction, but theoretical physicist Ronald Mallett believes he may have found a practical way of getting from here to, well... yesterday. What's more, the key component in Dr Mallett's time traveling blueprint is nothing more exotic than light itself, slowed down to a crawl and contained in two opposing circulating beams. But can scientists really turn theory into reality?

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