Time Traveler: A Scientist's Personal Mission to Make Time Travel a Reality.TIME TRAVELER A time traveler (British English: time traveller) is a person who engages in time travel. The name "Time Traveler" (or "Traveller") may refer to any of the following:
What began for Mallett as a boyhood dream to reunite re·u·nite tr. & intr.v. re·u·nit·ed, re·u·nit·ing, re·u·nites To bring or come together again. reunite Verb [-niting, -nited with his deceased father evolved into a lifelong quest to build a time machine. Propelled by this mission, Mallett rose above his working-class roots to become one of the first African Americans African American Multiculture A person having origins in any of the black racial groups of Africa. See Race. to earn a Ph.D degree in theoretical physics Here, Mallett tells his story He describes studying electronics in the US military and remaining on base to avoid the palpable racism of Biloxi, Miss During the lonely hours, he devoured books about quantum physics quantum physics n. (used with a sing. verb) The branch of physics that uses quantum theory to describe and predict the properties of a physical system. quantum physics See quantum mechanics. , philosophy, and mathematics He later enrolled in a physics program at Penn State University. He recounts how, after a brief stint as an industrial physicist, he returned to academia and teaching at the graduate level Mallett recalls bouts of depression that would leave him wondering whether his life's pursuits were based on fantasy Yet his lifelong dream continues to inspire his theorizing about time travel Thunder Mouth Press, 2006, 216 p, b&w photos, hardcover, $24.95. |
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