Dr. Ron Mallett is a celebrated theoretical physicist at the University of Connecticut, but he was once a little boy with a copy of "The Time Machine" by H.G. Wells. Mallett's father died when Mallett was 10 years old, and when he read this book a year later the idea of traveling back in time to prevent his father's death gripped his imagination. It wasn't a passing fancy. He studied physics in college, with a special interest in black holes. He