BRIDGEPORT – A University of Connecticut professor who is an author and time-travel pioneer who has shown that time travel is theoretically possible will speak at Housatonic Community College April 1.
While in Dr. Ronald Mallet's case the time of the talk may be fluid, for those who have not yet learned the intricacies of the time/space continuum, it starts at 3 p.m. in the Events Center in Beacon Hall.
Mallett, author of the book "Time Traveler: A Scientist’s Mission to Make Time Travel a Reality," will discuss "his rise from poverty to a distinguished scientific and academic career," organizers said in a statement.
Mallett, one of the nation’s first African Americans to earn a Ph.D. in theoretical physics, will lay out the technical specifications for what he envisions as a working machine, the statement said.
Mallet, "an inspiration to other African Americans, became interested in time travel as a 10-year-old boy grieving the death of his father," the statement said. "Finding a comic-book version of H.G. Wells’ The Time Machine, he set out to find a way to travel back in time to be reunited with his father," it said.
Decades later, as a tenured professor in UConn’s physics department, he "built his childhood dream into a working model of time travel," the statement said.
The movie rights to his book, which tells the story of his quest to build a time machine, have been purchased by director Spike Lee, it said.
HCC is located at 900 Lafayette Blvd. in downtown Bridgeport, less than 150 yards off I-95's Exit 27 and Rte. 8's Exit 1, a block from the Arena at Harbor Yard.
Free parking is available in the HCC parking garage.