PEOPLE------PROFESSOR------ RONALD MALLETT

I BEGIN THIS POST WITH A BOLD ASSUMPTION..I WOULD WAGER A CONSIDERABLE AMOUNT OF MONEY THAT EVERY ONE OF US, AT ONE TIME OR ANOTHER HAS UTTERED A REASONABLE RENDITION OF ONE OF THE FOLLOWING PHRASES. ‘I WISH I HADN’T DONE THAT’ OR ‘IF I HAD ONLY KNOWN’ HOW ABOUT ‘I WISH I KNEW THEN WHAT I KNOW NOW.’ REMEMBER THE SONG, ‘IF I COULD TURN BACK THE HANDS OF TIME’? THERE ARE NUMEROUS BALLADS WHERE SOMEONE, SOMEPLACE IS LAMENTING SOME PAST TRANSGRESSION AND ASKING THEIR BELOVED FOR FORGIVENESS..WE’VE ALL HEARD THE PHRASE OR HAD THE THOUGHT ‘I WISH I HAD A TIME MACHINE.’ BEING HUMAN, WE ALL WISH THAT THE MANY MISTAKES AND MISDEEDS OF THE PAST COULD SOMEHOW BE RECTIFIED, SOMEHOW UNDONE AND SET STRAIGHT..THE ABILITY TO UNDO PAST WRONGS IS BEYOND OUR REACH, SO WE DO OUR BEST TO ‘MAKE UP FOR IT’ THE BEST WE CAN..AND WITH A BIT OF LUCK, HOPEFULLY ALL ENDS WELL..

THE NOVEL “THE TIME MACHINE” BY H.G.WELLS GAVE BIRTH TO A NEW GENRE OF SCIENCE FICTION AND INSPIRED MANY AUTHORS TO EXPLORE THE MYRIAD POSSIBILITIES AND PARADOXES LURKING WITHIN THAT NEBULOUS DIMENSION WHICH CARRIES US IN IT’S GRASP..WHILE SOME OF US WERE CONTENT TO CREATE ADVENTURES AND FANTASIES WITHIN THE TIME TRAVEL REALM, ONE SAW FIT TO RISE ABOVE THE WORLD OF FICTION AND SET OUT ON A JOURNEY TO CREATE AN ACTUAL TIME MACHINE AND MAKE TIME TRAVEL A REALITY..       

ON SATURDAY MAY 21 AT THE CONNECTICUT BOOK FESTIVAL, I HAD THE PLEASURE OF MEETING PROFESSOR RONALD MALLETT AND LISTENING TO A MINI PRESENTATION IN WHICH HE BRIEFLY OUTLINED HIS CONCEPTS AND THEORIES REGARDING THE CREATION OF A TIME MACHINE..MY ONLY COMPLAINT BEING THAT HIS LECTURE WAS LIMITED TO ONE BRIEF HOUR DUE TO THE NUMBER OF AUTHORS WHO HAD BEEN SLATED TO ADDRESS THEIR RESPECTIVE AUDIENCES..I WAS GRANTED THE PRIVILEGE OF HAVING ONE OF MY QUESTIONS ANSWERED BY HIM BUT I COULD EASILY HAVE KEPT HIM OCCUPIED FOR MANY HOURS WITH IDEAS AND PARADOXES THAT HAVE PLAGUED MY MIND IN REGARDS TO TIME TRAVEL..

DR. MALLETT WAS BORN IN PENNSYLVANIA IN MARCH OF 1945, THEN MOVED TO THE BRONX NYC WHERE HE ENJOYED A PLEASANT CHILDHOOD UNTIL THE AGE OF TEN, WHEN THE DEATH OF HIS FATHER (AGE 33) THREW A DARK VEIL OVER HIS OUTLOOK ON LIFE..I HESITATE TO GO INTO SPECIFICS ABOUT THESE DARK YEARS, DR. MALLETT COVERS THAT PERIOD OF TIME WITH VERY TOUCHING DETAIL IN HIS BOOK—‘’TIME TRAVELER’’..HOWEVER, IT WAS DURING THAT UNHAPPY TIME IN HIS LIFE WHEN HE WAS INSPIRED BY H.G.WELLS STORY—‘’THE TIME MACHINE.’’  AT THAT YOUNG AGE HE DECIDED THAT HE WOULD BUILD A TIME MACHINE AND RETURN IN TIME TO WARN HIS FATHER OF HIS IMPENDING DEATH..AND AWAY HE WENT..HIS BOOK IS WELL WORTH READING (I HAVE TWO SIGNED COPIES) AND HIS WAY OF EXPLAINING THINGS MAKES COMPLEX MATTERS EASY TO UNDERSTAND..IS THIS POST A PLUG FOR HIS BOOK?  KIND OF, IF YOU ENJOY READING ABOUT TIME TRAVEL THEORY THIS IS TOP NOTCH AND SERIOUS  STUFF.. 

                                                  (A QUICK PLUG FOR MY BOOK IS COMING UP)

SINCE 1975 HE HAS TAUGHT PHYSICS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT. HIS PRIMARY FIELDS OF RESEARCH :: BLACK HOLES-GENERAL RELATIVITY & GRAVITATION-QUANTUM COSMOLOGY-RELATIVISTIC ASTROPHYSICS AND OF COURSE –TIME TRAVEL..HE HAS BEEN FEATURED ON --NPR- HISTORY CHANNEL-SCIENCE CHANNEL-DISCOVERY CHANNEL- GOOD MORNING AMERICA-TODAY SHOW AND MANY MORE AS WELL AS NUMEROUS PERIODICALS..AWARDS AND CITATIONS-FAR TOO MANY TO LIST IN THIS POST..

IF YOU DO DECIDE TO READ ‘TIME TRAVELER’ I FEEL OBLIGATED TO TELL YOU IT IS NOT AN ADVENTURE STORY THAT TAKES PLACE IN THE PAST OR FUTURE. IT IS A MIXTURE OF SOME PRETTY INTENSE SCIENCE AND THEORY THAT BLENDS WELL WITH DR. MALLETT’S AUTOBIOGRAPHY..AN INTERESTING READ ABOUT AN INCREDIBLY INTELLIGENT AND INTERESTING MAN WHO HAS SEEN FIT TO SHARE WITH US HIS FANTASTIC VISIONS ABOUT TIME TRAVEL..A GOOD BOOK FOR THE BEACH AS WELL AS A RAINY DAY..

WILL DR. MALLETT SUCCEED? 

AS MR. WELLS WROTE “ONE CANNOT CHOOSE BUT WONDER.”

 MY PERSONAL OPINION IS NO..PERHAPS OTHER THAN SENDING A SUB-ATOMIC PARTICLE INTO THE VERY RECENT PAST OR THE VERY NEAR FUTURE, I DON’T BELIEVE WE WILL EVER KNOW TIME TRAVEL AS H.G. WELLS PRESENTED IT..HOWEVER, IF SOMEONE HAD TOLD COLUMBUS THAT ONE DAY GREAT SHIPS WOULD FLY ACROSS THE SKY CARRYING HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE ACROSS THE OCEAN IN JUST A MATTER OF HOURS, COLUMBUS WOULD HAVE ORDERED HIS SAILORS TO TIE THE MAD MAN UP AND CONFINE HIM BEFORE HE HURT HIMSELF OR OTHERS..AND YET THAT SCENARIO AND MANY OTHERS THAT WERE ONCE IN THE REALM OF FICTION HAVE INDEED BECOME REALITY, EVEN COMMON EVERYDAY OCCURRENCES.

IN SPITE OF THE MANY OBSTACLES AND UNKNOWABLE DIFFICULTIES THAT TIME TRAVEL PRESENTS AND MY OWN DOUBTS ABOUT ITS POSSIBILITIES--I WOULD NOT BET AGAINST A MAN LIKE DR. RONALD MALLETT..   

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PROFESSOR RONALD MALLETT EXPLAINS TIME-SPACE AND GRAVITY OVERLAP

TIME TRAVEL EXPLAINED AS ONLY DR. MALLETT COULD

"ONE COPY TO READ AND ONE TO PUT AWAY-THANK YOU DR MALLETT



MY BOOK -INSPIRED BY H.G. WELLS-TIME MACHINE



THE STORY THAT INSPIRED PROFESSOR MALLETT AS A CHILD

• ALL THREE BOOKS MENTIONED ARE AVAILABLE AT AMAZON--TO LEARN MORE ABOUT PROFESSOR MALLETT GOOGLE UP HIS NAME --AND BE SURE TO CHECK OUT HIS HOME PAGE..
•  HEALTH AND HAPPINESS TO ALL -SO LONG UNTIL NEXT WEEK
• (DR. MALLETT-IF YOU GET TO NEXT WEEK BEFORE THE REST OF US--WAIT UP)