Is this guy for real?

Sev · 09-07-2006 9:36pm #1

Right.. I saw a program on discovery about this yesterday.. I had to follow it up. He claims to be able to construct a fairly rudimentary time machine. Sorry.. what?

This man is a physicist.
He wants to make the ultimate breakthrough.
He wants to build...

THE WORLDS FIRST TIME MACHINE

http://www.physics.uconn.edu/~mallett/main/time_travel.htm

planck2 · 12-07-2006 11:34pm

He exists. I doubt his claim have any basis in reality. Sounds like a guy trying to make a name for himself. He doesn't have the publication list one would associate with a full professorship

seandoiler · 13-07-2006 11:21am

while not wanting to make any comment on the validity of his time travelling claims, i think i should point out that Mallett's publication list is actually quite extensive...the articles listed on his web site are mainly to do with topics relating to time travel..he is a professor of physics at university of connecticut

Sev · 13-07-2006 3:19pm

Apparently he's releasing some kind of pop-science book about it in November.

muesli_offire · 13-07-2006 5:36pm

*don't forget the crystals*

planck2 · 14-07-2006 8:24pm

seandoiler wrote:

while not wanting to make any comment on the validity of his time travelling claims, i think i should point out that Mallett's publication list is actually quite extensive...the articles listed on his web site are mainly to do with topics relating to time travel..he is a professor of physics at university of connecticut[/QUOTe

i'm not tying to discredit him, but where did you find his publication record. I did a search on spires, arxiv, phys rev d, classical and quantum gravity, general relativity and gravitation and google scholar. I didn't find much, only about 15 papers not many when you consider his age.

Son Goku · 14-07-2006 9:44pm

planck2 wrote:

i'm not tying to discredit him, but where did you find his publication record. I did a search on spires, arxiv, phys rev d, classical and quantum gravity, general relativity and gravitation and google scholar. I didn't find much, only about 15 papers not many when you consider his age.

I expected at least something on spires.
I did a search on the others as well. It is rather poor number of papers to be honest.

Professor_Fink · 25-07-2006 2:08pm

planck2 wrote:

i'm not tying to discredit him, but where did you find his publication record. I did a search on spires, arxiv, phys rev d, classical and quantum gravity, general relativity and gravitation and google scholar. I didn't find much, only about 15 papers not many when you consider his age.

That's odd! Google scholar turned up 67 by "RL Mallett", which is the same guy.

Is this guy for real?

Comments