If anything, he's nearly the exact opposite of Ronald Mallett. Younger, long haired and blonde (or white or silver or a mixture of all three!), has worked in the area of time research longer, has no degree but lectures on the university level, more comfortable in exploring obtuse and abstract theories, yet a hard nosed, nuts and bolts engineer. Brash, bold and brainy, Marshall is the kind of maverick that unnerves conventional people who represent a more contrite, establishment view. His battles against Stephen Hawking are a perfect example. Kip Thorne, Hawking's good friend, said in the book, The Future of Space-Time that Hawking represents the establishment. Fitting then that Marshall has proved to be Hawking's greatest foe in the science world, proving the famed cosmologist to be wrong more times than anyone else, but daring to write Hawking and challenge him to raise his bet over the Higgs Boson from $100 to $1000! Hawking never responded but Marshall, so convinced that he was right (not because he knew more about particle physics but that he knew that Hawking has been wrong on so many other things, because of his psychological propensity to miss details that don't fit his preconceived models) that he posted a press release on the Internet so his position could be a public record. Of, course on July 4th, 2012, scientists at CERN announced that they had found the Higgs Boson and Stephen Hawking admitted that he was wrong. Yet another victory for Marshall over Hawking but not the only one for the year - he earlier not only proved that high school students could see an error in Hawking's argument against time travel from his documentary, Into the Universe with Stephen Hawking and proved it was an error with a physical experiment in the classroom, but that elementary school age kids could see a fundamental error that would have prevented the entire scenario from taking place! For that he was recognized with a proclamation from the Ohio General Assembly!
However, Marshall used to be a Stephen Hawking fan. It's just that Marshall's research into the nature of time, which began in the early 90s, is so important to him that he analyzes details for solutions that most physicists miss, including Hawking. Because Marshall wants to solve the mysteries of time, not just promote them as intellectual exercises, he will find himself in conflict with anyone promoting an alternative view which he knows is wrong. When that happens, Marshall always wins. It is this competitive spirit that makes Marshall a formidable challenger in this great time machine race. That, and the fact he is not held by the same constraints as many in the scientific community. His primary concern is results, not protocol. He sees himself as an inventor/engineer in the tradition of men like the Wright Brothers and Tesla and not the theoreticians like Einstein and Schroedinger. He is the ultimate technologist, doing his research for the commercial benefit and not for the sake of science and an university. Because of that, his work has to be right, and that is why he has a daring and a confidence that some may find threatening or arrogant. "Fearless", is how one supporter described him.
It was Marshall's quest for answers that led him to build his own lab and conduct research into the question of the effects of specially synthesized electromagnetic fields on space and time. The result was the creation of STDTS - Space-Time Dilator Transmitter System which enabled cars to arrive at their destinations sooner than they should have at the speed they were going. He believed that he was effecting time to do it (see the newspaper cover story above, written by a reporter that experienced it) but when he conducted a 'race' with another car that wasn't using the STDTS but was going at the same speed, he discovered that his car was in fact going faster even though the speedometer disagreed. After conferring with his friend, physicist Fred Alan Wolf, it was indeed concluded that the effect was caused by the field acting on space itself to make the car go faster, which is the definition of warp drive! Soviet scientist, N.A. Kozyrev had written in 1967 that using gravity to effect time would result in making rockets go faster but that such a result would constitute warp drive and this seemed to perfectly describe Marshall's invention. Further tests, called 'gravity drops' confirmed this conclusion, when objects inside the STDTS field fell faster than when the field was deactivated..
It was Marshall's conclusion, after reviewing Mallett's research in 2007, that if his STDTS field could rotate, that it might create the same kind of twisting of space and time that Mallett was writing of creating with his ring laser, however, the question of creating enough of an effect was not as much of an issue because the STDTS does create a gravitic effect as it moves the space. That's the whole point of it. Marshall mentioned this to Mallett when he promoted several events for him that same year. Mallett seemed fascinated, especially when he saw an STDTS gravity drop video during Marshall's MarCon lecture. At the time, however, Marshall's focus was on using the STDTS as a warp drive prototype and seemed content to let Mallett handle the time machine sector, but five years later, that's changed.
However, Marshall used to be a Stephen Hawking fan. It's just that Marshall's research into the nature of time, which began in the early 90s, is so important to him that he analyzes details for solutions that most physicists miss, including Hawking. Because Marshall wants to solve the mysteries of time, not just promote them as intellectual exercises, he will find himself in conflict with anyone promoting an alternative view which he knows is wrong. When that happens, Marshall always wins. It is this competitive spirit that makes Marshall a formidable challenger in this great time machine race. That, and the fact he is not held by the same constraints as many in the scientific community. His primary concern is results, not protocol. He sees himself as an inventor/engineer in the tradition of men like the Wright Brothers and Tesla and not the theoreticians like Einstein and Schroedinger. He is the ultimate technologist, doing his research for the commercial benefit and not for the sake of science and an university. Because of that, his work has to be right, and that is why he has a daring and a confidence that some may find threatening or arrogant. "Fearless", is how one supporter described him.
It was Marshall's quest for answers that led him to build his own lab and conduct research into the question of the effects of specially synthesized electromagnetic fields on space and time. The result was the creation of STDTS - Space-Time Dilator Transmitter System which enabled cars to arrive at their destinations sooner than they should have at the speed they were going. He believed that he was effecting time to do it (see the newspaper cover story above, written by a reporter that experienced it) but when he conducted a 'race' with another car that wasn't using the STDTS but was going at the same speed, he discovered that his car was in fact going faster even though the speedometer disagreed. After conferring with his friend, physicist Fred Alan Wolf, it was indeed concluded that the effect was caused by the field acting on space itself to make the car go faster, which is the definition of warp drive! Soviet scientist, N.A. Kozyrev had written in 1967 that using gravity to effect time would result in making rockets go faster but that such a result would constitute warp drive and this seemed to perfectly describe Marshall's invention. Further tests, called 'gravity drops' confirmed this conclusion, when objects inside the STDTS field fell faster than when the field was deactivated..
It was Marshall's conclusion, after reviewing Mallett's research in 2007, that if his STDTS field could rotate, that it might create the same kind of twisting of space and time that Mallett was writing of creating with his ring laser, however, the question of creating enough of an effect was not as much of an issue because the STDTS does create a gravitic effect as it moves the space. That's the whole point of it. Marshall mentioned this to Mallett when he promoted several events for him that same year. Mallett seemed fascinated, especially when he saw an STDTS gravity drop video during Marshall's MarCon lecture. At the time, however, Marshall's focus was on using the STDTS as a warp drive prototype and seemed content to let Mallett handle the time machine sector, but five years later, that's changed.
Mallett didn't seem to be making much progress although he indicated further collaborations were going on with other scientists. Meanwhile Marshall began to feel that he was wasting the potential of the STDTS by not investigating its capabilities to power a time machine. His associates agreed, as more physicists he talked to seem to indicate it was worthy of further research. Finally, Marshall sent Mallett the following email:
03/10/12 01:58 PM
Dear Dr. Mallett:
I've been trying to call you, but your office number doesn't go to voice mail and the home phone number I have doesn't seem to work either.
I'm writing you because of your experiment. As you remember, I have the STDTS technology that causes an acceleration of things that are already moving, through an apparent action on space itself - thus the gravity drop footage that you saw at the MarCon convention back in 2007.
Since then, I have designed an experiment that could become the first working example of a time machine, similar to your idea but not using the same apparatus, thus avoiding the problems that some physicists believe your apparatus may have (rightly or wrongly).
Here's the set-up:
1. A modified metal table fan such that the STDTS signal can be introduced and envelope the blades of the fan, causing an electromagnetic field to be present around each blade.
2. Because this field has been known to cause acceleration in the area of at least 5%, when the fan is switched on, the fan will spin faster without the motor going faster.
3. Because the acceleration is caused by the field contracting space as it moves through space, and the blades are moving so fast, the space that they move through will become twisted in rapid order. In particular, unlike space under the influence of an object accelerated by the STDTS field that is moving through that space but leaving it behind (as in linear motion from point A to point B), the space around the fan blades will have 0 chance to recover, as each blade contracts it more as it passes through, before the space can expand back to its regular shape.
4. Samir Mathur, PhD of OSU, told me that a Cauchy horizon might appear, under such circumstances.
5. Considerations, as to the effect on the fan motor, would be such that the motor wouldn't spin faster as the field doesn't act on objects but the space they move through. The stationary aspect of the fan blades, in relation to the space in which they are fixed, would cause the space to contract on both sides of the fan and begin to rotate in the direction of motion of the fan blades, in a fashion akin to a vortex. Space itself would begin to spin faster and faster around the blades, just as the blades have spinning effect on air under normal circumstances.
6. This type of torsion should produce a number of measurable effects, including but not limited to, the bending of light such that a laser fired through the effected area should show signs of being refracted in some measure, or in the case of severe effect, not shine through the fan and appear on a wall behind it when otherwise, it would - with a strobing effect.
So, my thoughts for you are to consider the implications of what I have described. If you have questions, I'll be happy to offer details. The bottom line is that if you feel this has some merit, I am willing to join forces with you under some arrangement so that if my contraption does twist space and time, you can at least maintain involvement in the world's first time machine.
I'm extending this as a courtesy to you out of my respect for you as a person and a scientist. I know that next year, at the latest, I will be able to pursue this opportunity for research and development of this particular system, wherever I want. I have an agent working on my behalf to develop projects with a number of universities, but this one I have withheld so I could give you a chance to respond. I don't need $250,000 to do an initial experiment that could have a chance of bearing results. However, if I do it somewhere else, and it is successful, the title of the "world's first time machine" would be no longer apply to you, obviously (unless you can get your design completed and prove it works before hand), and any university with which it is developed, would enforce its rights to said claim.
Please write me here or call me at your earliest convenience.
Thanks and All My Best,
Marshall Barnes
Mallett called Marshall, but he turned down his offer of joining forces, saying instead, "Why don't you do it the right way and just write a paper on it and get it published?" to which Marshall replied, "I don't need to write a paper because I'm going to build the damn thing. Who cares about a paper when you can have a chance to build it for real?". That was in April. By July, Marshall had found the time to pursue doing the project and released a press release announcing his intentions to the world. In August, while attending the Mars Society conference in Pasadena, Marshall told a group of colleagues, that he calls "the genius club", about his idea and got an enthusiastic response and encouragement, and even the offer to scale up the size of the project if the initial version proved successful. Armed with that support, he went home and constructed his device and began conducting tests. On August 20th, he released his initial findings. The race to build the 1st time machine was ON!
03/10/12 01:58 PM
Dear Dr. Mallett:
I've been trying to call you, but your office number doesn't go to voice mail and the home phone number I have doesn't seem to work either.
I'm writing you because of your experiment. As you remember, I have the STDTS technology that causes an acceleration of things that are already moving, through an apparent action on space itself - thus the gravity drop footage that you saw at the MarCon convention back in 2007.
Since then, I have designed an experiment that could become the first working example of a time machine, similar to your idea but not using the same apparatus, thus avoiding the problems that some physicists believe your apparatus may have (rightly or wrongly).
Here's the set-up:
1. A modified metal table fan such that the STDTS signal can be introduced and envelope the blades of the fan, causing an electromagnetic field to be present around each blade.
2. Because this field has been known to cause acceleration in the area of at least 5%, when the fan is switched on, the fan will spin faster without the motor going faster.
3. Because the acceleration is caused by the field contracting space as it moves through space, and the blades are moving so fast, the space that they move through will become twisted in rapid order. In particular, unlike space under the influence of an object accelerated by the STDTS field that is moving through that space but leaving it behind (as in linear motion from point A to point B), the space around the fan blades will have 0 chance to recover, as each blade contracts it more as it passes through, before the space can expand back to its regular shape.
4. Samir Mathur, PhD of OSU, told me that a Cauchy horizon might appear, under such circumstances.
5. Considerations, as to the effect on the fan motor, would be such that the motor wouldn't spin faster as the field doesn't act on objects but the space they move through. The stationary aspect of the fan blades, in relation to the space in which they are fixed, would cause the space to contract on both sides of the fan and begin to rotate in the direction of motion of the fan blades, in a fashion akin to a vortex. Space itself would begin to spin faster and faster around the blades, just as the blades have spinning effect on air under normal circumstances.
6. This type of torsion should produce a number of measurable effects, including but not limited to, the bending of light such that a laser fired through the effected area should show signs of being refracted in some measure, or in the case of severe effect, not shine through the fan and appear on a wall behind it when otherwise, it would - with a strobing effect.
So, my thoughts for you are to consider the implications of what I have described. If you have questions, I'll be happy to offer details. The bottom line is that if you feel this has some merit, I am willing to join forces with you under some arrangement so that if my contraption does twist space and time, you can at least maintain involvement in the world's first time machine.
I'm extending this as a courtesy to you out of my respect for you as a person and a scientist. I know that next year, at the latest, I will be able to pursue this opportunity for research and development of this particular system, wherever I want. I have an agent working on my behalf to develop projects with a number of universities, but this one I have withheld so I could give you a chance to respond. I don't need $250,000 to do an initial experiment that could have a chance of bearing results. However, if I do it somewhere else, and it is successful, the title of the "world's first time machine" would be no longer apply to you, obviously (unless you can get your design completed and prove it works before hand), and any university with which it is developed, would enforce its rights to said claim.
Please write me here or call me at your earliest convenience.
Thanks and All My Best,
Marshall Barnes
Mallett called Marshall, but he turned down his offer of joining forces, saying instead, "Why don't you do it the right way and just write a paper on it and get it published?" to which Marshall replied, "I don't need to write a paper because I'm going to build the damn thing. Who cares about a paper when you can have a chance to build it for real?". That was in April. By July, Marshall had found the time to pursue doing the project and released a press release announcing his intentions to the world. In August, while attending the Mars Society conference in Pasadena, Marshall told a group of colleagues, that he calls "the genius club", about his idea and got an enthusiastic response and encouragement, and even the offer to scale up the size of the project if the initial version proved successful. Armed with that support, he went home and constructed his device and began conducting tests. On August 20th, he released his initial findings. The race to build the 1st time machine was ON!
In November of 2013, Marshall completed a series of experiments at higher power levels and was able to show that RF and IR frequency waves sent into the Verdrehung Fan would disappear over time. These results blew the minds of physicists and TV/radio engineers because any interference with a signal should be immediate and not build up on its own. Furthermore, the signals were disappearing regardless of which direction they entered the Verdrehung Fan(TM). This is the classic, flat faced, wormhole geometry but didn't involved a single, large wormhole but many, tiny micro wormholes in a rotating mesh, rapidly opening and closing but being held open longer and longer, thus allowing more and more of the waves to enter over time. Marshall did his research into the effects of torsion of the fabric of space-time and applied it to a space-time filled with micro wormholes in quantum foam. The result matched the experimental evidence, which Marshall presented at an unprecedented lecture at the 2014 International Space Development Conference in Los Angeles. His findings astonished the audience, but more than that, the next day, New Scientist magazine published a report about British physicist Luke Butcher who posited that micro wormholes might be able to stay open longer than first thought if they have the Casimir effect inside them. That might make it possible to send photons through them (the particles of various wave lengths of light) but he wasn't sure that these bursts of light would be large enough to carry information. This supported Marshall's finding in a kind of reverse way - explaining the results that Marshall was getting, as a result of micro wormholes being held open longer.
This put Marshall light years beyond what Ronald Mallett wants to achieve. Marshall knew how to create the rotating gravitic field that would warp space and time. He knew that general relativity was not the answer but Einstein's unfinished unified field theory. He knew what kind of machine to build and did it. And above all, he performed the experiments, and did live demonstrations and they were a success. Marshall has done it all.
Marshall Barnes, R&D Eng is the winner of
the Great Time Machine Race!
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This put Marshall light years beyond what Ronald Mallett wants to achieve. Marshall knew how to create the rotating gravitic field that would warp space and time. He knew that general relativity was not the answer but Einstein's unfinished unified field theory. He knew what kind of machine to build and did it. And above all, he performed the experiments, and did live demonstrations and they were a success. Marshall has done it all.
Marshall Barnes, R&D Eng is the winner of
the Great Time Machine Race!
All Contents On This Site Are Copyright 2012 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED