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4/12/10

Time Travel Is Topic For Talk At St. Lawrence

CANTON - "Time Traveler: A Scientist's Personal Mission to Make Time Travel a Reality" is the title of the 2010 Alfred Romer Memorial Lecture at St. Lawrence University, to be delivered by Ronald Mallett, of the University of Connecticut physics department, on Wednesday, April 21, at 8 p.m. in the auditorium of Hepburn Hall. The event is open to the public, free of charge.

Mallett will explains his theory of time travel, derived from the work of Albert Einstein and Kurt Gödel, as well as his own experiments over 30 years, involving a machine with circulating laser beams. He hopes to build and test the machine within the next 10 years, though funding is still being sought.

Behind the science, explained for a general audience, lies Mallett's personal story. He touches on the death of his father when he was a boy (which set him on his current path to invent a time machine) and tells how he overcame poverty and racism to become one of the few African-American Ph.D.s in theoretical physics.

The Alfred Romer Lecture was established to honor the late emeritus professor of physics, who was associated with the University for over 50 years. For more information, contact the physics department at 315-229-5491.

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