Whitehall Time Travel Therory

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The Whitehall Time Travel Theory is a new theory created by physics student Daryl Whitehall. The theory talks about the possibility of sending anything into the future by sending the object at 99.99% of the speed of light through a wormhole around the Earth and back to the same point in space only x hours, minutes, days etc. later. Others have been quick to criticise the theory saying that it relies on to many other theories to be proven in order for this one to be proven. Others say that this isn't time travel but rather sending someone away for some time and then bringing them back.

Origins of the Theory
The theory was created by physics student Daryl Whitehall. He claims that he got the idea of it after having a dream about it. He began to follow it, consulting others for their views and opinions, and slowly created the Whitehall Time Travel Theory. The Theory has been published and can be downloaded from this website:

The Concept behind the theory
The concept is that if two men are standing at the top of a small moon and one walks all the way around in a straight line he will arrive at the same point he left again. For the man that didn't move his friend was away for 10 minutes and later arrived back with him again. This is the same as if someone was sent to the future; the time traveller would be gone for 10 minutes and then would reappear after the 10 minutes had passed. The only problem was that the man who walked around the moon would also have experienced the 10 minutes. Daryl Whitehall had found a way around this but the moon had to grow in size.

Imagine a planet with a circumference of 144,000,000,000 metres. Man 1 is launched around the planet at 99.99% of the speed of light (299,970,000 ms ). To man 2 his friend takes 8 minutes to arrive back at the point he left but to man 1 the trip was instantaneous, this is because of time dilation. Thus man 1 had been sent 8 minutes into the future. Even then there were problems, if an object was fired around the planet at 99.99% of the speed of light then it would hit anything in its path killing the traveller or destroying the object. A simple way around this was that a wormhole would have to be used to travel around the planet in order to avoid colliding with other objects. The traveller would be fired through the wormhole, around the planet and out the other end of the wormhole at the same point the traveller left. The traveller’s journey would have been instantaneous but to anyone else he would have been away for 10 minutes.

Practical Implications
One of the main problems stopping the theory from being pursued in a practical manner is the fact that we do not currently have the technology to create and control wormholes. As well as that, there are problems with speeding up someone to 99.99% of the speed of light and then slowing them down back to rest. Daryl theorised that the subject could be accelerated up to 99.99% of the speed of light by placing them in a human sized accelerator. The subject would wear an iron suit and, using high powered magnets, be accelerated up to 99.99% of the speed of light. To negate the effects of the extreme g-forces on the subject’s body other accelerators with heavy masses in them would be placed around the main accelerator creating a small gravitational pull pulling in the opposite direction to the forces pulling the body in.

At the moment a practical route is not being chosen due to lack of funding and the inability to create wormholes but once enough funding is gathered further research may commence.

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