File:Time Traveler- Ron Mallett - Conversations from Penn State

Devastated by the loss of his father, Ron Mallett found hope in an unlikely place: H.G. Wells' The Time Machine. Mallett, now a physics professor at the University of Connecticut, discusses how his father's death led him on a lifelong quest to build a time machine, the Spike Lee movie based on his life, and how time travel may not be as far off as many might think.