Spike Lee Will Film Time Traveler

Time travel has long been a staple of science fiction. But how many physicists seriously argue time travel's feasibility in the real world?

One that does is Dr. Ronald Mallett, a professor of physics specializing in particle and field theory at the University of Connecticut and one of the nation's first African-Americans to earn a Ph.D in theoretical physics. Mallett co-wrote Time Traveler: A Scientist's Personal Mission to Make Time Travel a Reality (Basic Books, 2006) as a first-person memoir of his pursuit and discovery of the equations he says make physical travel into the past a possibility.

This week Spike Lee signed on to co-write and direct a film adaptation of Time Traveler, setting the stage for the creation of an unusual film based on real-life personal and scientific challenges and the kind of ideas normally dealt with only in fiction.

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