I've been reading James Gleick's book on Time Travel, and he makes the interesting point that even though it is a completely familiar concept to us, there's actually no record of anyone ever thinking of it before H. G. Wells wrote the Time Machine in 1895. Shortly after, Einstein developed his theory of relativity which brought the notion into the realm of useful speculation and (in at least the very limited form of time dilation) into reality. People had considered somewhat related ideas like falling asleep and waking up years later (Rip Van Winkle, 1819), but nobody had considered the precise idea of traveling in time. But in 1895 that thought was finally ready to be thunk. It remained impossible, but it became
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I've been reading James Gleick's book on Time Travel, and he makes the interesting point that even though it is a completely familiar concept to us, there's actually no record of anyone ever thinking of it before H. G. Wells wrote the Time Machine in 1895. Shortly after, Einstein developed his theory of relativity which brought the notion into the realm of useful speculation and (in at least the very limited form of time dilation) into reality. People had considered somewhat related ideas like falling asleep and waking up years later (Rip Van Winkle, 1819), but nobody had considered the precise idea of traveling in time. But in 1895 that thought was finally ready to be thunk. It remained impossible, but it became