Cinema Arts Centre Huntington, NY
Dr. Ronald Mallett
Theoretical Physicist; Professor, University of Connecticut
Back to the Future— The Science of Quantum Physics and Time Travel
Program Description
Hop into the DeLorean and join us as we explore the science of quantum physics and time travel with a screening of the legendary 1985 sci-fi classic Back to the Future and a discussion with Dr. Ronald Mallett of the University of Connecticut.
Presented At
Cinema Arts Centre Huntington, NY
Film Synopsis
A young man is accidentally sent 30 years into the past in a time-traveling DeLorean invented by his friend Dr. Emmett Brown, and must make sure his high-school-age parents unite in order to save his own existence.
Typical high schooler Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox) is accidentally sent 30 years into the past in a time-traveling DeLorean, invented by his mad-scientist friend Dr. Emmett “Doc” Brown (Christopher Lloyd). Finding himself trapped in the 1950s, Marty searches for Doc to help send him back to his own time. But things get even more complicated when he inadvertently interferes with the budding romance of his teenaged parents (Crispin Glover, Lea Thompson). Our hero must now reunite his parents-to-be, lest he cease to exist in the 1980s. Robert Zemeckis’s classic sci-fi adventure comedy was the highest grossing film of 1985, and won a slew of awards, including an Oscar for Best Sound Effects Editing.
About the Speaker
Dr. Ronald Mallett is a world-renowned theoretical physicist and currently teaches as a full professor at the University of Connecticut. In 1973 he received his doctorate in General Physics from Pennsylvania State University. He has published in the areas of classic and quantum theory of black holes, relativistic astrophysics, and quantum cosmology. Dr. Mallett has focused on building a time machine since his father’s untimely death when Ron was 10 years old. Dr. Mallett, along with a team of physicists nationwide, has plans for the world’s first-time machine. They have generated a great deal of attention for their work in relativity and gravitation as it relates to time travel. Dr. Mallett presented these theories when he was featured in an hour-long documentary on relativity on The Learning Channel and on the National Geographic Channel, “Naked Science,” Time Travel.