Video: The first time machine

Ronald Mallett, a professor of theoretical physics at the University of Connecticut, has been working on a time travel machine. The American physicist's invention would use a ring laser and Einstein's theory of general relativity. It would manipulate past, present and future by twisting Space and, along with it, Time into a loop.
Imagine conquering the virgin frontier of Time like conquering the Atlantic or the Galactic. Reaching the distant shores of the past as the first European explorers reached the distant shores of America. But human travel through Time is probably a long way away.

Dr. Mallet and his fellow scientists must first perform their historic experiment, and they are currently trying to raise $250,000 to do just that. The Univ. of Connecticut Foundation, a nonprofit agency responsible for managing funding, has opened an account for donations to Prof. Mallett's time travel research. The official name of this scientific program is "The Space-Time Twisting by Light Project."

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Hmmmm, time machine

So, wouldn't this have an effect on the outcome of lottories then? I mean, doesn't sending next week's lotto information back thereby change the results of the lottory and send this reality into an alternate universe, or not?