When man uses his imagination, everything is possible. Thanks to innovative inventions over the years, we've learned how to fly, talk to people from across the world,  use microwave - sky's the limits. More breakthroughs are being discovered daily, and this one scientist believes he's got a chance to actually send a message back in time.

John Cramer, a physicist who previously revealed time travel theories, garnered more than US$ 35,000 to support his idea of using lasers, prisms, splitters, fiber-optic cables and other gadgets to detect non-local signals from photons. Success of this experiment could very well mean the possibility of time travel.

Skeptics are to be expected when it comes to such ambitious projects. Cramer, however, is not fazed. "I'm not crazy. I don't know if this experiment will work, but I can't see why it won't. People are skeptical about this, but I think we can learn something, even if it fails," he said.

People supporting him comes from all places: a gas-and-oil businessman, a music industry executive, a biotechnology scientist, a retired physicist and rocket scientist, and a photographer.

In general, all of them believes that the project may fail, but is feasible. A small investment is nothing if time travel gets proven because of it. As the businessman said, you can always go back in time and get your money back.

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) refused to fund the experiment for being "too weird." They would rather spend money on developing Metal Gear liquid robots and cyborg beetles than taking a shot at time travel.

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A month back, we ran an article that argues how unlikely it is for humans to ever travel back in time unless they want to find a black hole and plunge headlong into certain doom in a foolhardy effort to go through a wormhole that hopefully leads to some desolate corner of the universe in a time almost indeterminable.

Sounds real tough, doesn't it? Not really, says physicist John Cramer of the University of Washington. For starters, he says it's theoretically possible to conduct an experiment that may spawn a different approach using an old Einstein paradox. By splitting light particles called photons, he could test what forces bind the sub atomic pieces such that they remain "entangled" even when light years apart.

To put it into context, Cramer says the ideas of the most famous physicist of this generation, Stephen Hawking, regarding time are wrong. Hawking has long fathered the idea that time travels in a straight and linear path through the time-space continuum. The theory essentially suggests that time moves only forward and going against it to travel to the past is impossible. The theory also says that travel to the future is a possibility as long as a body travels in the speed of light or faster.

Cramer agrees about the part concerning future travel, but he says time can ping back both ways in the laws of quantum mechanics, a study that deals with the actions and motions of the smallest particles known to man. He says that by using the Einstein paradox as a model, we can see that split particles influence each other no matter how far apart. This, Cramer says, is only possible if a signal or energy pattern binding the particles transcends time by traveling forward and backwards.

Experiments could have been underway, but neither NASA's Institute of Advanced Concepts (NIAC) nor the Defense Advanced Research Program Agency (DARPA) would cough up the US$ 20,000 that Cramer is asking for. The NIAC is on its way to closing down and the DARPA says the Cramer study is just too strange. Incidentally, DARPA is involved in developing liquid robots and cyborg beetles.

"We're about to hit the wall if we don't get funding," he said. "It would be a shame because even if this doesn't work, I'm sure we'd learn something from trying," says a dejected Cramer.  To find out more about the UW study, follow the read URL.