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means A hypothetical device for traveling backward or forward through time, whether in a sci-fi story or as a stand-in for anything that revisits the past or glimpses the future.
from Coined by H. G. Wells for his 1895 novella 'The Time Machine' — before that, writers who sent characters through time usually relied on dreams, sleep spells, or magic rather than a built contraption. Wells gave the idea a lever and a dial, turning time travel into an engineering problem, and the phrase stuck so thoroughly that it now gets applied loosely to anything — an old photograph, a preserved building — that seems to pull the past into the present.
- origin
- H.G. Wells coined the term in 1895
- physics loophole
- relativity technically allows forward time travel via speed
- real version
- GPS satellites age slower than you, daily
- backward travel
- still purely theoretical, grandfather paradox unsolved