I know what you’re thinking - "What the hell, this guy doesn’t even know how to spell ’foreword...’". Yea, I know but I’m making a point. It’s an exercise in thinking outside the box, something that goes straight to the heart of the subject matter of this book. But more importantly, the prefix has special meaning - four, as in the number. We live in a four dimensional space-time - 3 dimensions of space and one of time. But there’s also the four primary subjects that this book deals with - the end of society as we knew it, the end of the world as we know it, the end of time as we knew it and the end of the myth of Ronald L. Mallett, the University of Connecticut physics professor who convinced the world that he had a time machine when in fact all he had was a design for how to build a very flawed, impossible to work, model - and the world bought it. Or at least some of the world, much as the result of deliberate media hype.

I would have rather not written this book. After all, I was a fan of Dr. Mallett, as you will read, and I never believed I would utter this word in reference to him - fraud. It’s a very harsh word especially when leveled at such an otherwise well respected scientist, so I will modify it by making this statement - "Ronald Mallett is a time travel expert fraud", and I’ll stand by that statement while using this book to prove it. I will also prove how the media and the Lavin Agency, the speaking organization that represents him, has helped to perpetuate that fraud.

My case is based on these irrefutable facts:

1. He allowed a documentary created to promote him and his ideas to be called, The World’s First Time Machine, when in fact there was no time machine, only an unsubstantiated theory that he had a design for a time machine that he admits he isn’t certain will work. That, from a science perspective is misleading at least and a misrepresentation at worse. The fact that he allowed that to happen, points toward Ronald Mallett’s tendency to promote himself beyond his due through the enabling of other people to do it for him. He didn’t make the documentary and or name it but he didn’t say, "Wait, I can’t allow a work of non-fiction about me to have a title that is misleading and isn’t true". Nope, he just let director Ben Bowie’s enthusiasm get the best of him and run with it.

2. Within the documentary it opens with a fictional point in the future where our "great, great, great grandchildren" are taken to the "Museum of Time Travel" and are told by their teacher, that "Way back in the early 20th century, one man has an idea. His name is Ronald L. Mallett..."

The program’s narrator then goes into this droning litany about how Mallett is "close to the ultimate prize - a working time machine".

The rest of the program is a fanciful presentation of the same old tired information about the nature of time, time travel theories, and the ideas that his "time machine" are based on, with one major difference - his unique story about why he wanted to do time travel in the first place - the fact that his father dies when he was a little boy, which crushed him. A father, whom he worshiped. It is this compelling personal story that is the engine behind Mallett’s public acceptance, that and the fact that whenever possible, he repeats the hollow mantra that his time machine idea, "is based on Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity", as if it were the magic words to protect him from claims that he’s really nothing more than a quack, a possibility that truly drove fear into his heart. I know, because I know him and have known him since 2007, a fact that enables me to tell the true story behind what I now call the Mallett Myth - the idea that he has a time machine design that will work, that he is on the verge of building it and that it will be the first time machine in the world. The reality is that he allowed his provisional patent to expire, which means anyone else can patent it now - thus robbing him of any benefits of designing it, there is no way that it will work as he’s designed it and last but foremost, it will never be the "world’s first time machine" because even if he were to get it to work, I was able to prove that I have the first one, which not only works on a particle level but has been demonstrated multiple times in front of a live audience and sometimes even volunteers from the audience running the equipment themselves. The fact that the lion’s share of the media attention goes to Mallett and his lack of knowledge, progress, and finally a machine of his own, is an indictment of the media which is also a major portion of the following story.

However, also is the growing phenomenon of the millennial generation’s "arrogant ignorance", the fact that many of a generation, that likes to think that they’re so damn smart, have hitched their admiration and adoration to Mallett’s bandwagon - drunk the media Kool-aid story about him to its last drop but then, when confronted with the truth - that not only is he a time travel physics phony but that there really is now a viable machine and breakthrough research going on, they just fall silent or try to ignore the facts even when they’re presented with them. This is a true phenomena that I have never seen at any other time nor among any other group.

There are no counter arguments even posited, or requests for additional info - none of the hallmarks of true intelligence - curiosity. If Mallett is exposed by my research as being a time travel fraud, my work has equally exposed his young following as millennial morons, returning the word - ’geek’ to an intellectual version of its original meaning. The fact that I found both circumstances to be simultaneously true is not something I’m reveling in. It is a tragedy as it represents a dramatic symptom of our very sick society and reinforces, at the same time, the very importance for time travel in reality, the very claim that Mallett wants to envision, because it suggests just how unprepared this society is for the future.

I don’t believe in any future that is promoted as a distant tomorrow on our horizon. But I do believe in the past, which is why I challenged Ronald Mallett to The Great Time Machine Race. To not only establish a clear and present winner, but point to an alternative that could insure the continuation of humanity from our known and present timeline.