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

This is the dramatic and inspirational first-person story of theoretical physicist, Dr. Ronald Mallett, who recently discovered the basic equations for a working time machine that he believes can be used as a transport vehicle to the past. Combining elements of Rocket Boys and Elegant Universe, Time Traveler follows Mallett's discovery of Einstein's work on space-time, his study of Godel's work on a solution of Einstein's equation that might allow for time travel, and his own research in theoretical physics spanning thirty years that culminated in his recent discovery of the effects of circulating laser light and its application to time travel. The foundation for Mallett's historic time-travel work is Einstein's theory of general relativity, a sound platform for any physicist. Through his years of reading and studying Einstein, Mallett became a buff well before he had any notion of the importance of the grand old relativist's theories to his own career. One interesting subtext to the story is Mallett's identification with, and keen interest in, Einstein. Mallett provides easy-to-understand explanations of the famous physicist's seminal work.

ISBN-13: 9781568583631

Media Type: Paperback

Publisher: Basic Books

Publication Date: 11-09-2007

Pages: 240

Product Dimensions: 5.00(w) x 8.25(h) x (d)

Ronald L. Mallett, Ph.D., served in the U.S. Air Force for four years. He received his B.S. in Physics in 1969, M.S. in 1970, and Ph.D. in physics in 1973, all lfrom Pennsylvania State University. In 1975 he joined the faculty at the University of Connecticut, where he is a professor of theoretical physics. He has published many papers on theoretical physics in professional journals. His time travel research has been featured in an hour-long TV special, "The World's First Time Machine," as well as publications as diverse as the Wall Street Journal, Rolling Stone, New Scientist, the Village Voice, the Boston Globe and Pravda.

Table of Contents

Prologue     ix
A Death in the Beginning     1
My Secret Mission     9
Einstein and Me     19
In My Father's Footsteps     25
A Project Under Development     35
The Education of a Physicist     53
My Introduction to Lasers     83
Finding My Academic Home     97
My Expanding Universe     107
Deeper into Black Holes     115
Back from the Brink     139
The Sweetness of Technology     155
Building the Machine     175
Time Travel Paradoxes     191
Endnotes     199
Index     207 Show More