Forward, into the past!

According to this Boston Globe article, U. Connecticut physics professor Ronald Mallett has an idea for how to build a working time machine. "I'm not a nut," claims Professor Mallett.

The most sf-like bit of the article is this:

Since his father, a heavy smoker, died at the age of 33 when Mallett was 10 years old, Mallett has longed for a way to travel back in time to warn him about the dangers of cigarettes.

So apparently Mallett became a physicist because he hoped to be able to create a time machine to go back and save his father.

Fortunately, any ethical issues that might arise will be easily resolved: "There would be government laws to control time travel."

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