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Back to the future, could it actual happen with a realtime machine? that is tonights ida, tonights series on new ideas. >> all ron mallet wanted as a child was a time machine it. was 1955, the year his father died as a massive heart attack and he was only 33 years old. >> i was devastated. i thought if i could build a time machine and go back in time and tell him what would happen and save his life that became an obsession for me. >> today he is a well-known physicist sand attempting to build a ...

Back to the past. >> another way to imagine this, he said, is through a cup of coffee. the cup is empty space and the circulating light beam and the spoon is the light. >> the coffee bean goes so goes the neutron. and it pulls around twisting time and space. now if you are still scratching your head you are definitely not alone. for years he feared he wouldnt be taken seriously so he kept his dream a secret. >> if i wanted to get a job in academia and go up the ladder it would not be a good idea...

A doc that looks back on the film. its a pleasure to welcome the filmmaker behind "back in time," jason aaron. this film is 30 years old. why are you still obsessed with it? >> how could you not be? its one of the great films to come out of the 80s. it has everything in it. you know its like you said. its a romance, its an action-thriller, a little bit -- well, a lot of sci-fi. to me it always felt real. that was always the thing for me about "back to the future." i felt like my neighbor had a t...

And now it is time for a time machine. this is so exciting. a physicist needs to raise a quarter of a million dollars to test his theory of time travel. after reading "the time machine" the 11-year-old was obsessed with traveling back in time to save his father who died suddenly of a heart attack the previous year. 60 years later he has a working theory based on einsteins laws. it involves using loops of light and consequently twist time. >> if we think of time as a straight line say a straight ...

Created in the political discussion. >> well, right, and what i was trying to say in the column is if you had rewound your time machine back five or ten years, and say, we would be having a debate where most republicans and conservatives and frankly at this point most religious conservatives concede that within the next few years, we a lot of same-sex marriage in every state in the union and the only issue remaining was the question of whether a handful of florists, an orthodox jewish deli that ...

>> since were talking about the presidential election today, if you took a political journalist from 1865 and put him in a time machine to cover the current election cycle, ted cruz announcement and such they would be more or less baffled by everything they encountered but for a small handful of institutions that have somehow managed to endure. the republican party though admittedly its no longer quite as zealously invested in imposing martial law and "the new york times" still around today and ...

Particularly on our roads and highways and transportation, trains and bridges. pretty fundamental. secondly i think climate change very important. and thirdly, we have to invest in science, in technology, in our universities and thats building for the future and thats stealing from it. i would like to see a positive agenda and not the methodology that somehow government can retract to where it was in 1929 under calvin coolidge. >> if you were ten years younger would you be running this year? >> ...

I spent the last two months pouring over rodney reeds case and i still dont know if hes innocent or guilty of the crime that put him on death row. theres a lot of disturbing allegations against him independent of that crime. what i do know is that i dont trust the criminal justice system in texas or anywhere else frankly. a nation where nearly 150 people on death row have been exonerated. i also know that immersing myself in the details of this case has on strengthened my feeling that the state ...

As effective. it is the only way to avoid capitulation on the one hand or war on the other. and obama refuses to do it. >> youre suddenly elected in a write in vote president of the united states in 2016, krauthammer wins across the board, even though he doesnt even campaign. so your president krauthammer, what do you do then you take a time machine back to tomorrow, fuse, what do you do? >> so what i do is i tell the iranians that we are not offering them as in the current offer 6,500 centrifug...

>> no. >> but you ran, competed in high school maybe? >> no. >> you sound perfect. >> rotten tomatoes is giving it a solid 63%. reviews mostly positive. roger moore of "the tribune news" feel-good sports movies are always manipulative but damned if costner doesnt make this one work. sara stewart of "the new york post" more critical. saying you can see the feel good coming a mile away though the plots never flushed out enough to really distinguish it in the underdog team genre. >> costner has don...