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Ronald L. Mallett

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Ronald L. Mallett (born March 30, 1945) is a theoretical physicist and professor emeritus at the University of Connecticut known for his research into the possibility of time travel using circulating laser beams based on Einstein's general theory of relativity. As the author of Time Traveler: A Scientist's Personal Mission to Make Time Travel a Reality, he has shared his deeply personal story of how his father's early death inspired a lifelong quest to unlock the physics of traveling through time.

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Books1

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

2006

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Episodes2

November 12, 2006: Towards a Time Machine - Ronald Mallett

Nov 12, 2006

2h 39m

Art Bell welcomes Professor Ronald Mallett, a theoretical physicist at the University of Connecticut, who presents his research on building a time machine grounded in Einstein's general theory of relativity. Mallett explains that his quest began at age ten when his father died suddenly, and reading H.G. Wells inspir...

October 6, 2015: Time Travel - Ronald Mallett

Oct 6, 2015

2h 22m

Art Bell sits down with Professor Ronald Mallett, a research professor of physics at the University of Connecticut, to explore the science behind time travel. Professor Mallett shares the deeply personal origin of his lifelong obsession: the death of his father from a heart attack at age 33, when Ronald was just ten...