Time Traveler: A Scientist's Personal Mission to Make Time Travel a Reality
Date: Wednesday, November 4th, 2009
Time: 6:00 PM
Address: 250 Columbus Boulevard, Hartford, CT 06103
A UConn Physics Professor's book is on its way to becoming a Spike Lee movie - it's more "The Time Machine" or "Back to the Future" than "Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure" or "Dr. Who," where the actual building of the time machine isn't even remotely central to the plot. Think whirring parts, math, physics and Einstein's theories of relativity as opposed to alien magic, shiny police boxes that are bigger on the inside than the outside and Keanu Reeves.
Dr. Ronald Mallett, a University of Connecticut professor and theoretical physicist, believes he has discovered the basic equations for a working time machine. His book, Time Traveler: A Scientist’s Personal Mission to Make Time Travel a Reality is now being made into a movie, to be directed by Spike Lee.
TIME TRAVELER: A Scientist's Personal Mission to Make Time Travel a Reality (Basic Books) is the compelling and touching story of a man whose deep childhood trauma -- at age ten the sudden death of his father -- drove him on a quest to build a time machine in an attempt to go back in time to save his father. In telling his story, Mallett explains in "easy-to-read" (Publishers Weekly) language and elegant metaphors the physics that makes time travel possible -- based on Einstein's theories of relativity -- and offers what New Scientist's editor Michael Brooks calls an "actual blueprint for a time machine."
6 PM reception with cash bar, 7 PM presentation, followed by a book signing.
$25; $15 for Premier Members.
Reservations: (860) 520-2154. Click here to buy tickets online.
