“It’s really just a matter of time.”

Posted by on November 7th, 2008 in friends of the future, nature

Dr. Ronald L. Mallett, tenured theoretical physicist at the University of Connecticut has been leading a double life for the past 50 years.  By day he’s been a well-respected and popular physics researcher, with a score of plublications and a c.v. a mile long.  At home, however, he’s been what some might call a Mad Scientist.  If not actually Mad,  perhaps just a bit driven.   

Dr. Mallett, you see, wants to build a time machine to travel into the past and save his father’s life.

On Mallett’s cluttered desk sits a small placard: “If the facts do not conform to the theory, they must be disposed of.” A bit of geek humor. But Mallett knew that there was nothing in the laws of physics that said time travel was impossible. And now his groundbreaking theories about the nature of space-time are about to be borne out in a Connecticut laboratory.

 

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2 Responses to ““It’s really just a matter of time.””

  1. Holy crap, he’s Batman. He’s Bruce Wayne if he decided to be a time traveller instead of a crimefighter.

  2. Sounds epic, if a little mad…