Abstract
Ever since H. G. Wells penned his novel The Time Machine, man has dreamed of breaking the bonds of time and traveling into the misty future, and back to the past. What would it feel like to be suddenly catapulted hundreds, even thousands of years into the future? What would it be like to visit your ancestors? Science fiction writers have been speculating on such matters for years. But will it ever become reality? Scientists have recently been looking into this and what they have found has astounded them. Time travel may, indeed, be possible.
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Parker, B. (1991). Introduction. In: Cosmic Time Travel. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-6136-5_1
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