Amos Ori (; born 1956) is a professor of
Physics
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at the
Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
The Technion – Israel Institute of Technology is a public university, public research university located in Haifa, Israel. Established in 1912 by Jews under the dominion of the Ottoman Empire, the Technion is the oldest university in the coun ...
in
Haifa, Israel
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. He received media attention in 2005 when he proposed, in a letter to ''
Physical Review Letters
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'', what he claimed was a more "realistic" model for time travel.
Nature's Own Time Machine
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See also
*Wormhole
A wormhole is a hypothetical structure that connects disparate points in spacetime. It can be visualized as a tunnel with two ends at separate points in spacetime (i.e., different locations, different points in time, or both). Wormholes are base ...
References
External links
Science News discusses Ori's wormhole theory
* ttp://www.spacedaily.com/reports/New_Theoritical_Model_Eliminates_Barriers_To_Time_Travel_999.html New Theoritical [sic] Model Eliminates Barriers To Time Travelbr>Time Travel Machine Outlined
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Living people
Israeli physicists
Academic staff of Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
1956 births
Jewish physicists