Born 1906, Czechoslovakia.
"In 1949 Dr Kurt Gödel published an interesting article describing the prototype of a universe based on Einstein's general theory of relativity. In this universe it is theoretically possible to travel into any part of the past or the future -- on the assumption that matter can be wholly commuted into energy. In addition, a time-machine would have to move at a speed equal to 70.7% of the speed of light, which is to say at least 800 million kilometres per hour. Gödel's theory showed that relativist blue-prints of a world could be made in which the local times of what he called fundamental observers, who are subject to the average course of matter in their environment, cannot be brought into any form of reciprocity that would allow of the creation of a universal time-element.
"Closed time-curves exist everywhere according to Gödel's design, that would actually permit an individual to travel into his own past or future". --Johannes von Buttlar (in Journey to Infinity , 1973).
Died in 1978.
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