{"id":392,"date":"2002-04-11T12:24:29","date_gmt":"2002-04-11T19:24:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2002\/04\/11\/392.html"},"modified":"2002-04-11T12:24:29","modified_gmt":"2002-04-11T19:24:29","slug":"forward-into-the-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2002\/04\/11\/forward-into-the-past\/","title":{"rendered":"Forward, into the past!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/dailyglobe2\/095\/metro\/Professor_s_time_travel_idea_fires_up_the_imagination+.shtml\">this <cite>Boston Globe<\/cite> article<\/a>, U. Connecticut physics professor Ronald Mallett has an idea for how to build a working time machine. \"I'm not a nut,\" claims Professor Mallett.<\/p>\n<p>The most sf-like bit of the article is this:\n<blockquote><p>Since his father, a heavy smoker, died at the age of 33 when Mallett was 10 years old, Mallett has longed for a way to travel back in time to warn him about the dangers of cigarettes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So apparently Mallett became a physicist because he hoped to be able to create a time machine to go back and save his father.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, any ethical issues that might arise will be easily resolved: \"There would be government laws to control time travel.\"<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to this Boston Globe article, U. Connecticut physics professor Ronald Mallett has an idea for how to build a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}