• National Science Foundation newsletter
  "A Son's Quest for Time Travel"
  June 2009

  Growing up in New York City in the 1950s, Ronald Mallett idolized his father, a television repair man and amateur inventor who sparked young Ron’s curiosity about the world. “He was the most important thing in my life, my entire universe,” Mallett recalled in a National Public Radio interview in 2007. Tragically, Mallett’s father died suddenly at the age of 33 from a heart attack, devastating 10-year-old Ron. Shortly after that loss, however, a comic book adaptation of HG Wells’ classic “The Time Machine” inspired Ron and set him on a life-long quest--if time travel was possible, he would build a time machine, go back in time and warn his father about his heart condition. Despite the barriers African-American students faced at the time, Mallett earned a doctorate in physics from Pennsylvania State University and became a tenured faculty member at the University of Connecticut. Over the years, while Mallett engaged in research on black holes, general relativity and other facets of theoretical physics, he continued quietly working on the concept of time travel, receiving NSF support for his work. Eventually he published a paper that built on the work of Einstein and others, and raised the possibility of using light to bend time--a process which could, theoretically at least, allow for time travel. Recently, director Spike Lee acquired the rights to produce a feature film version of Mallett’s published memoir, “Time Traveler: A Scientist’s Personal Mission to Make Time Travel a Reality” (Basic Books, 2007), co-authored with Bruce Henderson and published around the world. While Mallett continues making contributions to physics, thanks to his father’s inspiration, his own life inspires others.

• The Boston Phoenix
  "Space Cowboy"
  by Mike Miliard - November 14, 2008

  For more than 50 years, UConn physics professor Ronald L. Mallett had a secret. Now it's out, we may be one step closer to traveling back in time.

• Hartford Courant
  "Spike Lee To Shoot Biopic On UConn Professor"
  by Grace E. Merritt - July 12, 2008

  Imagine picking up the phone and Spike Lee's on the line and he's telling you he wants to make a movie about your life. Not just a small, arty film, but a major motion picture. That's exactly what happened to Ron Mallett, a University of Connecticut physics professor who has developed a theory for time travel that could be a blueprint for a real time machine.

• Penn State Altoona News
  "Spike Lee Acquires Film Rights to Book Written by Former Student"
  - June 25, 2008

• UConn Advance
  "Spike Lee to Base New Movie on Physics Professor's Book"
  by Cindy Weiss - June 23, 2008
  

• Cinematical
  "Spike Lee Wants to be a 'Time Traveler'"
  by Elisabeth Rappe - June 18, 2008
  

• Variety.com
  "Spike Lee takes on 'Time Traveler'"
  by Michael Fleming - June 17, 2008
  

  Click here for more on: Time Traveler: A Spike Lee Film

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Articles and Broadcasts
(2001 - 2007)

• Die Zeit
  Nr. 45 - Seite 51
  Mittwoch, 31.10.2007
  Deutschland

  "Rettung für Superman"
  Von Bettina Gartner

  Ein Professor für Theoretische Physik
  will mit einer Zeitmaschine in die Vergangenheit reisen und seinen toten Vater besuchen.

The Time (German Newspaper)
No. 45 - page 51
Wednesday, October 31, 2007
Germany

"Rescue for Superman"
by Bettina Gartner

A professor of theoretical physics, Ronald L. Mallett, wants to travel with a time machine into the past and visit his dead father.

• CNN International
  28 September 2007
  ( International Television Broadcast)
  CNN Today
  Adrian Finighan's interview of Ronald L. Mallett
  Click here for: complete interview on YouTube

• The Daily Express - UK
  25 August 2007 ( British Newspaper)
  "If I Could Turn Back the Clock"
  article written by Judy Finnigan of London's Richard and Judy Show about their recent interview of Ronald Mallett on August 15: "A few days ago we interviewed a time traveller on our C4 show. Not literally - at least not yet. He is a highly respected American Professor of Physics at the University of Connecticut - one of the first black Americans to ever receive a doctorate in this subject. He is a fascinating man, a mesmerising talker. He is also convinced he has cracked the theory of time travel."

• Steve Wright show - UK
  24 August 2007
  (British Radio Broadcast)

• BBC Radio 4 Today - UK
  17 August 2007
  (British Radio Broadcast)
  Dr. Ronald Mallet tells us about his life's ambition: to make time travel a reality

• Richard and Judy, Channel 4 - UK
  15 August 2007
  (British Television Broadcast)
  Professor Ronald Mallett joined Richard and Judy to tell his inspiring story of an ordinary boy who went to extraordinary lengths to try and save the best friend he'd ever known - his dad.

• Coast to Coast AM with George Noory
  August 8, 2007
  (International Radio Broadcast)
  Developing Time Travel
  Professor of Physics at the Univ. of Conn., Dr. Ron Mallett shared his research into time travel. His interest in developing a time machine was brought about by the early death of his father and his desire to go back into the past and see him. Mallett's concept for a time machine centers around the idea that a circulating beam of light can cause a twisting of space and time, looping the past and future together.

• BBC Worldwide Sci/Tech News
  7 August 2007 - UK
  (Archived BBC Radio Broadcast)
  Radio Interview with Neil Bowlden "Bid to Build a Time Machine"
  BBC Video Sci-Tech
  American scientist Professor Ronald Mallett has recently published in the UK
  his memoir "The Time Traveller" about his bid to build a time machine.

• BBC World Service
  6 August 2007 - UK
  "The Dream of Time Travel"
  News article written by Neil Bowdler, BBC News, Science Reporter
  From HG Wells to the latest Big Brother challenge, time travel has sparked the popular imagination. Now, an American scientist has broken his silence about his dream of time travel, with a book documenting his life-long struggle to build a time machine
  

• Daily Mail
  28 July 2007 - UK
  "The Real Life Doctor Who who Believes He can Build a Time Machine"
  News article written by Michael Hanlon
  

• Arena Magazine
  August 2007 - UK
  "How to Build a Working Time Machine"
  Essay written by Ronald L. Mallett
  "The power to go back and change all those mistakes you've made can be yours"

• Popular Science - UK (popularscience.co.uk)
  August 2007 - UK
  Interview of Ronald Mallett by Brian Clegg
  "Ronald Mallett is professor of physics at the University of Connecticut. In his book, The Time Traveller, he describes his motivation to become involved in science, and his fascinating work that may have brought him close to practical time travel."

• NPR: "To The Best of our Knowledge"
  (USA National Public Radio Broadcast)
  Audio interview by Anne Strainchamps - April 15, 2007

• Laser Institute of America, Northeast Chapter
  Recap of meeting of the Laser Institute of America's Northeast Regional Chapter
  featuring special guest speaker, Ronald Mallett, professor of Theoretical Physics at University of Connecticut. Dr. Mallett is a noted lecturer and author on the subject of Time Travel. He has written a very easy to read and elegant book on the subject called "Time Traveler". "The interesting connection ... is that he is actively involved in researching circulating, high-power laser light (ring lasers) and its potential applications to time travel... Kudos to the chapter organizers for delivering a meeting that was both interesting and thought provoking".
  by Lareen Belleville - March, 2007

• Smithsonian Magazine Online
  The Wishful Thinker: A column that asks scientists, "Are we there yet?"
  "DeLorean Tremens" - Hold onto your flux capacitors, time machines have nearly arrived
  by Eric Jaffe - March, 2007

• New Haven Register
  "Physicist hopes to see time travel in near future"
  by Abram Katz, Register Science Editor - February 11, 2007

• NPR: "This American Life"
  (National Public Radio Broadcast) January 26-28, 2007
  

  Photo by Daniel Buttrey

  Reporter Josh Gleason and producer Sarah Koenig interview Ron Mallett for "This American Life" Episode #324: "My Brilliant Plan" [click here for: free streaming of broadcast]

  Josh Gleason reports TAL Episode #324: "My Brilliant Plan" (23 minutes):  Ron Mallett was ten years old when his father died unexpectedly of a heart attack. A year later, after picking up a comic book based on H.G. Wells' book, "The Time Machine", Ron concocted perhaps the world's most complicated plan to try to see his dad again. A half century later, Dr. Ronald Mallett wrote a book about his plan, called "Time Traveler: A Scientist's Personal Mission to Make Time Travel a Reality".

• Hartford Courant
  "On The Long Road To Making Time Travel A Future Reality"
  by William Weir - November 14, 2006

• Coast to Coast AM with Art Bell
  (Live Radio Broadcast)
  Interview on Time Travel - November 12, 2006
  UConn professor of physics Ron Mallett talked with Art Bell for three hours on his late night radio show. Discussed was what science has to say about the real possibility of traveling into the past and the future. Dr. Mallett also shared his ideas on time travel as well as his concept for a time machine based on Einstein's general theory of relativity.
  Click for show downloads/streams available to C2C members
  

• New Scientist Magazine - November 11, 2006
  " Turning Point: Back to My Future" by Ronald L. Mallett
  

• Ivy Leaf, the Penn State Altoona magazine
  "Paradox Lost", Fall 2006

• Penn State - Altoona News - November 7, 2006
  "Time Travel Author to Present Lecture"

• UConn Advance
  "Physicist's New Book Recounts Personal Quest For Time Travel"
  by Kenneth Best - November 6, 2006

• "Prophets of Science Fiction"
  (Television Broadcast)
  Premiere on The Science Channel - August 6, 2006
  A new documentary on the uncanny visions of science fiction writers, Jules Verne and H.G. Wells. Dr. Ronald Mallett appears in the segment on "The Time Machine" by H.G. Wells.

• Boston Museum of Science
  (Audio Broadcast)
  podcast audio interview
  by Adam Weiss - May 5, 2006

• Newsweek  -  May 1, 2006
  " From Time To Time" [jpeg]
  by Mary Carmichael

• The Drudge Report
  "Professor Predicts Human Time Travel This Century"
  by Lisa Zyga - April 4, 2006

• Astronomy magazine

  February, 2006 Cover article on time travel: "Is Time on Our Side?" by Richard Talcott - page 32 Editorial: "Traveling in Space and Time" by David J. Eicher - page 6

• University of North Carolina
  by Dan Nonte - February 7, 2006

  

• Hartford's Sport And Medical Sciences Academy
  June, 2005 Graduation Keynote Speaker

• National Gallery for America's Young Inventors
  May, 2005 Induction Ceremony

• Akron Beacon Journal
  "Build a Time Machine?"
  by Paula Schleis - April 24, 2005

• "The World's First Time Machine"
  (Television Broadcast)
  USA Premiere on The Learning Channel - December 3, 2003
  This is the popular 2003 BBC documentary directed by Ben Bowie which features Dr. Ronald Mallett in a remarkable presentation of some of his current time travel research.
  "The World's First Time Machine" has since been shown numerous times on The Science Channel.

• Wall Street Journal
  "Physicists Are Looking At How We Might Take A Trip Through Time"
  by Sharon Begley - November 21, 2003

• The Associated Press
  "UConn Professor on Quest to Prove Time Travel Possible"
  by Kurt Moffett - September 12, 2003

• Caymanian Compass
  "The Serious Side of Time Travel"
  by Guy Harrison - June 13, 2003

• The Hartford Advocate

  Cover Article: "Time Travelin' Man" Will UConn physicist Ronald Mallett build the first time machine? by Alistair Highet - Aug 22, 2002

• UConn Radio (Audio Broadcast)
  "Time Travel in Our Time?"
  Audio interview by J. Hughes - June, 2002

• New Haven Register
  "Ahead of His Time"
  by Abram Katz, Register Science Editor - May 21, 2002

• Christian Science Monitor
  "A circulating beam of light as a way to time travel"
  by Mary Kuhl - May 16, 2002

• The Crimson
  by Elizabeth F. Maher - April 11, 2002

• The Village Voice
  "What Time Is It There?" by Dennis Lim - April, 2002

• WGBH (Audio Broadcast)
  "A Brief History of Time Travel"
  Audio lecture by Ronald L. Mallett - April 5, 2002

• Boston Museum of Science
  Audio presentation of invited lecture
  "A Brief History of Time Travel" - April 5, 2002

• The Boston Globe
  "Professor's time travel idea fires up the imagination"
  by David Abel - April 5, 2002

• The Hartford Courant
  "Moving Time With Light" by Grace E. Merritt - July 23, 2001

• USA Today: Wonderquest with April Holladay - June 20, 2001

• Rolling Stone: "Hot Theory: Time Travel" - April 30, 2001

• New Scientist
  New Scientist Magazine - May 19, 2001
  "Time Twister" by Michael Brooks