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UConn researcher studies time-travel

To speak at WVU

Updated: Friday, 18 Sep 2009, 5:46 AM EDT
Published : Friday, 18 Sep 2009, 5:46 AM EDT

    Morgantown, W.Va. (AP) - A University of Connecticut physicist who claims time travel is scientific fact, not fiction, will be making his case to an audience in West Virginia.

    Ronald Mallett, the subject of a planned Spike Lee film, is speaking at West Virginia University's Hodges Hall on Sept. 23.

    He says that in the lab, he's been able to make particles move faster through time.

    Mallett, a theoretical physicist, says he's using lasers and Albert Einstein's theories of relativity to develop equations for a potential time machine.

    His interest began when his father died in 1955. Mallett, who was only 10, has always dreamed of traveling back in time to save his father's life.

    Mallett has written a memoir called "Time Traveler: A Scientist's Personal Mission to Make Time Travel a Reality."

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