time travel
Time Travel Time travel is one of the most interesting and controversial subjects in science. Scientists such as Newton and Einstein, spent their whole lives trying to unravel the mystery of time travel. Time according to Webster Dictionary is “a continuous period measured by clocks, watches, and calendars. ... 786) So time is continuous, but some scientists think differently. According to these scientists time is a fourth dimension in space. It is not continuous, they think it is possible to travel both forward and backward in time. ... Wells, The Time Machine. In this book Wells builds a time machine capable of controlling his location in time. He uses it to travel eight hundred thousand years into the future. His book broke new ground in science fiction and is thought to be the first book about time travel. Scientists believe there are two main methods of time travel. The first and most prominent is a time machine. Wells wrote his first version of The Time Machine at the age of twenty-two. ... This was not the first instance of fictional time travel; the earliest was Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving.