Time compressor

TIME COMPRESSOR

According to the theory of relativity, time passes slower for a moving clock than it is to a stationery clock.

Using the above mentioned concept a device similar to the blades of a coffee grinder has been made by K.S.SIDDHARTH and ABHIJIT JOSHI, two eleventh grade students from Mumbai, India.

About the machine
The structure the machine is similar to that of the blade of a coffee grinder.
The actual machine will be a million times larger than the blade of a coffee grinder. The machine will be cylindrical, having long, lateral wings. This design is meant to be aerodynamical.

Principle on which the machine works:
Time will go slowly for objects with higher speed; this is given by Einstein’s Theory of Realtivity. This is the basic idea on which the whole project is based upon. The craft will accelerate at an extremely high rate to a high velocity, thus slowing down the time considerably for the craft and its passengers.
The process by which time will slow down for the faster moving entities is called time dilation.

How the machine will actually work:

The Time dilation craft basically can be split into two components:

a) The craft body:
The craft body is made up of quartz. This is commonly known is silicon dioxide, i.e. it has the chemical composition as that of sand, only that it has none of the softness and fineness one might associate with sand.
Indeed, quartz is one tough substance, having a rating of 7 on the Mohs Scale,
Having an absolute hardness of 100.

Quartz can withstand heavy dents, hence it makes a logical choice as the craft body.

b) The propulsion technique
Generally, if one would want to accelerate a craft, such as a spacecraft, he/she would use the conventional jet propulsion technique, which involves burning a mixture a fuels and sending the exhausts out at a high velocity, thus accelerating the craft to a huge speed (according to Newton’s Third Law) and propelling the craft wherever wanted (Of course, that specific he/she would have to have an extraordinarily deep pocket). But that process would involve high costs, high risks, and high stakes. Failed space missions , which are usually due to problems in the propulsion systems, have proved many dear.
Also, the velocities acquired by these techniques are inadequate for the time dilation effects to be conspicuous. Thus, an altogether new technique is used.

You must have heard of the Wright Brothers and the marvels they engineered we now call as airplanes. Now salute the Bedford Brothers from Alabama, U.S. These bros have made up the idea of using carbon as the propulsion agent. This is the essence of how the idea works:
Let’s go back in time a bit. Our ancestors found out the basic usage of wind, applying it for a basic sail on a ship.
The theory here is that rather on depending on unreliable natural elements such as wind, we create our own artificial wind to create a sort of sail. The basic idea being that carbon,
when it absorbs energy , will release it back with a high speed. Higher the energy absorbed, greater will be the ‘spit-out’ velocity. For this reason, we use radiation of high energy, such as microwaves or radiowaves, which are electromagnetic radiations with extremely high frequencies, hence having high energies.
Now, when the carbon ‘sails’ will be subjected to microwaves/radiowaves for one hour or so, the resultant ‘spit-out’ carbon-monoxide gas will accelerate the sail by almost 60km/sec.square. That is right, this is much, much more than the acceleration provided by conventional fuels.
The amount of push experienced by the sail is directly proportional to the amount of energy absorbed. Keeping this in mind, we can make a certain improvement over the Bedford brothers’ plans, making this more viable. The key step is, instead of using normal carbon, we can use carbon nanotubes. A bit of information on carbon nanotubes:

Carbon Nanotubes, as you must have guessed, are tiny tubes, usually having a diameter of a nanometer. To gain an idea of how small this actually is, it might be said that millions and billions of these tiny structures can make up a single strand of human hair.
Having said that, it should also be noted that these nanotubes have remarkable properties,
such as intense heat absorbing capacities.
Thus, instead of using a carbon sail, we replace it by a mesh of carbon-nanotubes.

This step will have a two-fold advantage:
1) Since carbon nanotubes packed together much more densely than normal carbon atoms, we can be sure that none of the incident energy is lost in between the comparatively larger inter-molecular spaces in the atoms. The densely packed carbon nanotubes ensure that every last joule can be effectively utilized.
2) Since carbon nanotubes are miniature models of carbon atoms that carry out almost every function of carbon atoms with much higher efficiency, we can be sure that, the heat retaining capacity of the nanotubes is higher than that of the atoms.Thus, they can also give out carbon monoxide with much higher velocities , by using up the incident energy to break bonds and form carbon monoxide on a large scale, accelerating at a very high rate.

Currently, nanotube manufacturing is still in its infancy. As with any new promising technology, cost of production is bound to go down with mass production. Carbon nanotubes can themselves have some defects, existing in forms of atomic vacancies. This can sometime be fatal , as smallest weakness in the bond usually translates to an unnerving loss in thermal retentive properties. We may hope that future technologies may reduce these defects.

Calculation of the

âˆ†T=T◊
Where,
âˆ†T=dilated time
T=time for which the time craft runs
◊ is the Lorentz factor=1/√1-v.v/c.c
âˆ†T=T/√1-v.v/c.c
CALCULATIONS

Let the machine run for one hour=3600 seconds
Therefore T=3600 seconds
Acceleration due to carbon nanotubes is 60 km/sec2
Therefore v=60*3600=216000 km/sec
After substituting in the above formula we get the dilated time as close to 1 hour.

RESULT
RESULT-TIME PASSED ON GROUND-2 HOURS
TIME PASSED FOR PERSON USING TIME COMPRESSOR-1 HOUR.
SO THE PERSON GOES 1 HOUR INTO THE FUTURE.

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