How To Build A Time Machine

December, 2011

TIME TRAVEL IS POSSIBLE. EINSTEIN AND THE MINDS BEHIND STAR TREKSHW US THE WAYNEVER —Albert Einstein (1879-1955), interview givenon the liner Belgenland (1930)There is a fundamental flaw in nearly every time machine you see in fiction. It's true of the Time Traveller's device in H.G. Wells's The Time Machine, it's true of Doctor Who's TARDIS-and yes, it's true of Dr. Emmett Brown's time-traveling DeLorean in Back to the Future. The mechanisms these time machines use for traveling through the tem...

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