Time Traveler: A Scientist's Personal Mission to Make Time Travel a Reality

Science News,  Dec 16, 2006  

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TIME TRAVELER: A Scientist's Personal MISSIOn to Make Time Travel a Reality RONALD L MALLETT

What began for Mallett as a boyhood dream to reunite with his deceased father evolved into a lifelong quest to build a time machine. Propelled by this mission, Mallett rose above his working-class roots to become one of the first African Americans to earn a Ph.D degree in theoretical physics Here, Mallett tells his story He describes studying electronics in the US military and remaining on base to avoid the palpable racism of Biloxi, Miss During the lonely hours, he devoured books about quantum physics, philosophy, and mathematics He later enrolled in a physics program at Penn State University. He recounts how, after a brief stint as an industrial physicist, he returned to academia and teaching at the graduate level Mallett recalls bouts of depression that would leave him wondering whether his life's pursuits were based on fantasy Yet his lifelong dream continues to inspire his theorizing about time travel Thunder Mouth Press, 2006, 216 p, b&w photos, hardcover, $24.95.

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