Ron Mallett is determined to invent a time machine
Some time ago during the research for my book 'Dr Midas and the Pirates' I watched a fascinating documentary about whether time travel would ever be possible. One of the people interviewed was Ronald Mallett a scientist hooked on trying to create a real-life time machine after reading a comic book version of the HG Wells book 'The Time Machine.'
Ronald Mallett also had a very personal reason for wanting to invent a time machine - so he could travel back in time to spend time with his father who died when he was a boy.
Ronald is convinced time travel will be possible - but only ahead in time beyond the point when the machine is created. Of course in my book Dr Midas travels to the past but I have used some of the same rules in my explanation as to how he can do it.
Director Spike Lee
Now news has broken that Spike Lee will co-write and direct an adaptation of Ronald Mallett’s memoir Time Traveler: A Scientist’s Personal Mission to Make Time Travel a Reality.
Spike Lee describes Time Traveler as a “fantastic story on many levels (and) also a father and son saga of loss and love.”
The memoir - co-written by best-selling author Bruce Henderson - tells a story of Ronald Mallett’s rise from poverty to becoming a distinguished academic, one of the first African Americans to earn a Ph.D in theoretical physics. Now a physics professor he is also raising funding for his Space-time Twisting by Light project pictured below.
Now I wonder if I can convince a film director to adapt my time travel book? ;)
* Ronald Mallett's website is at http://www.physics.uconn.edu/~mallett/main/main.htm
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