Mallett's ideas are certainly interesting; Spike Lee is supposed to be working on a film version of Mallett's book Time Traveler: A Scientist's Personal Mission to Make Time Travel a Reality.

Stupid is a little harsh; no harm in theories.

While its true that Novikov's self-consistency principle solves the Grandfather paradox, time travel isn't necessarily impossible; just highly improbable given the enormous amount of energy required to have it work.

Doesn't stop physicists like Kip Thorne having fun with the idea though.

Personal criticisms of Mallett aside, I do feel as if we are getting off-topic from what Mia intended.

Mia, were you asking if time travel existed within Raw Shark Texts, or were you just curious why Steven had Mallett listed on his Myspace page?

Time (immortality), and loss of time (memory loss), are significant aspects of the novel, but the more specific time travel does not really seem to play a role.

Doctor Who, though, is a different matter :).

hmmm. it was meant as a general point of interest.
I'm anticipating time travel to be a future area explored by Steven Hall (cross your fingers everyone!)

I was looking up Ronald L. Mallett's "time machine" and he was describing it as using light to "twist" space and time to loop time back on itself. To do this, he would use a circular laser ring to create rotating empty space in the center (don't ask me what it means, that's just what i read). Do you think this might have something to do with codename: "Hula Hoop"??