Time travel

Simon Wells is the great-grandson of H.G. Wells. He directed the 2002 film adaptation of his ancestor’s classic novel, The Time Machine. Wells has very specific ideas about how a time machine should be designed ? but David Goldberg says the time transport vehicle might look more like a spaceship; Goldberg and Connie Willis also […]

Kurt Andersen thinks time travel is the ultimate fantasy. He’s made peace with the fact that he probably won’t be climbing into a time machine any time soon ? because, he explains, he already has. The past isn’t nearly as dead as we thought.

David Goldberg teaches physics at Drexel University. In A User’s Guide to the Universe, he explains how time travel might be possible. He tells Kurt why the skeptics are wrong: “It’s certainly within the realm of what we know about how the universe works.”

The writer, a winner of multiple Hugo and Nebula awards, admits she was first drawn to time travel out of a desire to go back and fix her own mistakes. Now she loves using it to allow her characters to experience history. She reads from her upcoming novel, Blackout, in which she sends time travelers […]

Simon Wells (the great-grandson of H.G. Wells) directed the 2002 film adaptation of his ancestor’s classic novel, The Time Machine – he explains his design for the time machine. David Goldberg thinks it will actually look more like a spaceship; he and Connie Willis also debate whether a visitor to the past would be able […]