In the story "The Time Machine" by H.G. Wells, the time traveler, in the end,?
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Field survival guide,\nScience how to book, and\nA blank one to write my own story
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Time folds in as much as it is within life.\nThe future exists with the past
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The world is comming to an end?
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I don't think it is possible, and if so the experiment itself would probably detroy the fabric of our reality to the point that people's answers would disappear, and reappear as different answers. The time machine does make for some fine fiction, though.
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A time machine.\n\nI have always been fascinated with the concept of time travel, changing the past and seeing the future.  \n\nActually, I think most people are. \n\nMost have thought "What if" I could go back in time and rearrange a key event in their past or in history. \n\nThe future, of course, would just be fun to gaze on.  So many things have changed in the last 100 years, it's difficult to imagine where we might be in another 1000 years...if we don't destroy ourselves.\n\n...but even that would be fascinating to see:\n\n"The day the earth died".
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It already happened in the future which was erased when they went into the past to show it off which resulted in the machine never existing which negated the previous invetion but led to a second much sooner invention of the time machine which, of course, already happened in the future at which point...
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the last day of the previous universe (assuming the previous universe collapsed into a singularity, and then exploded into this universe)
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I would go to the distant future and speak with people who perhaps allready have the time machine so I could understand how to use it carefully without disrupting the continuum. I would be careful on going to the future to get reports on sports games and the stock market because each future you visit is only one particular future, and with each passing second it creates a completely differrent future. I also might take christians and other religeous fanatics to the far distant past to prove to them that evolution occured once and for all and their bible thumping is basicaly meaningless. However this could also be dangerous because any foreign disease on us, or exhaled by us that was exposed to the primordial world could totaly change what we know to be current history. Every invention created by us happens very carefully, we make nothing before we are ready. If (in total speculation) a future time traveller visited the past he would have all precautions accounted for, such as disease, mistakes, and keeping a low profile. In our century we have no such precautions. So if I ever did get a hold of a time machine, I would return it to whoever it came from. Another problem with using a time machine to change the past or "the grandfather" paradox is Richard Feynmans theory of "a particle will take every possible path in space time" meaning if I went back and changed a past, I would change the past in a totaly differrent time frame then the temporal continuum I am used to, so when I returned everything would be the same. However I would be still messing with the universe. Theirfore if I ever found a empty time machine I would indeed leave it alone, or return it to the big temporal lost and found. We are not ready for such technology, and probaly wont be for a long time.
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I would love to see time travel available, but I believe to go back and prevent a part of history would be wrong. It would change the future for everyone. I loved the TV show "Quantum Leap", but I always thought there was something wrong about changing history.
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well, I read the story, and I sorta remember the ending.  What was baffling?\nDidn't the road virus finally catch up to Paul(?) not sure about the name.
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That is a scary thought, just one wrong person or even one wrong move and the world could be thrown into a parallel time or alternate universe, but would someone with a time machine be able to fix what went wrong. Then I think of what good even I could or what  I would want to go back and "fix" warn myself or loved ones of mistakes, prevent some deaths, but I know that this is not my place and I would not want to "play" God, Greed would probably play into it and I would want to play the lottery or something equally greedy. Great Question!!! Thanks for getting me to think about this.
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The Invisible Man\n\nA terrifying story from the author of The Time Machine and The War of the Worlds. An obscure scientist invents a way to render skin, bones, and blood invisible, and tries the formula on himself. Now he can go anywhere, menace anyone--sight unseen. He has only two problems: he cannot become visible again--and he has gone quite murderously insane.\n\nhttp://www.online-literature.com/wellshg...\nSource(s):\n\nhttp://www.online-literature.com/wellshg...
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The time machine wouldn't have been effected either way. It stays on it's own plane of existance, that's why, if you'd go back in time, no one but the person who created it would see it.
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Time travel is pretty much a sure thing, at least to the past.  Tiny little wormholes pop up everywhere all the time.  If one were able to be captured, and then expanded to fit a person through (say with antigravity from the casimir effect or a lazer) a time machine could be made.  Now there are a couple of hoops to jump through of course.  Wormholes have TREMENDOUS pressure, they pretty much crush matter to a single point (called a singularity), so you would have to find a way to survive the trip.  Now, the wormhole has a beggining and an end, two sides like a tunnel.  Now, very large and very dense objects tend to slow down time, so does traveling very fast.  Drag one side of the wormhole next to something VERY dense, like say, a pulsar.  Leave it close to the pulsar and then it will experience time differently than the other side of the wormhole.  Leave it there until there is a time differential between the two that you are satisfied with (like say a year or whatever), and then drag it back right next to the other end of the tunnel.  Now you have two holes in space/time in reletively the same place, but if you walk through one side, you will come out right next to it, but in a different time, dictated by that time differential that you created.\n\nThere are of course paradoxed assciated with this.  One is the famous killing your mother paradox.  If you go back in time and kill your mother, you will not exist.  BUT, if you do not exist you could not have killed your mother and therefore you DO exist and you kill her etc etc etc.  How about a scientist which goes to the future a couple of years, opens up a scientific journal, takes quick notes of a new theory, and goes back to his time and gives the info to one of his students.  This studen then works a few years perfecting the theory and has it published.  This just so happens to be the journal that the scientist had read.  Where did the information come from in the first place, did it just appear out of nowhere?  There are lots of logical problems with this, but by the time we manage to develop the technology necessary to do all this we'll probably have figured it all out.
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The correct term is "deus ex machina," and literally, it means "God from the machine."\n\nIt's when something quite improbable happens at the end of a story... realizing it was just a dream, or when a hero shows up at the last moment unexpectedly with the solution to the problem.  It could even be used to refer to a "twist" or unexpected ending.\n\nIt originates form Greek theatre, when a machine (like a crane) would lower actors playing God onto the stage, where they would resolve the problematic storyline.
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war of the worlds by h.g. wells\n\nbut the dune series recently surpassed that\nthe series was written by hubbard\n\nthere seems to be open debate about this even amoung the fans and experts.\n\nsci-fi weekly once had an artcile about this subject.
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the Lost White Brother marks the end of the Fourth world, and the beginning of the fifth world.\nCheck out this link: \n\nhttp://medialab.ifc.com/film_detail.jsp?film_id=351