Time Machine: Ronald Mallett

How fiction influences science.  Ronald Mallett read a comic book in his childhood based on H.G. Wells’ The Time Machine.  His childhood goal – to create a Time Machine – has been partly realised in his work as a theoretical physicist.

Ronald Mallett

 

This man’s story is so incredible.  You can listen to his story on This American Life or watch a webcast of him at the Walker Art Center from earlier this year.  I was heartbroken that I couldn’t go see him speak.