CHAPTER 1 A History of Time Travel Time travel is one of the coolest superpowers In stories some superheroes use time travel to solve crimes Others use it to rewrite history In reality time travel has excited scientists for many decades People have spent a lot of time trying to figure out if humans can ever go back into the past or forward into the future After all who wouldn’t like to travel in Opposite Time is a unique and essential part of our daily lives A History of Time Travel 5 A History of Time Travel 5
The Prague astronomical clock in the Czech Republic has been documenting the passage of time since the 1400s time There are many ideas called theories out there about how we could time travel However are any of them true Time Travel in Stories Many people have dreamed of traveling in time Time traveling is talked about in myths and fairy tales from ancient cultures and in more recent eras Some religious folktales also mention it The usual kind of time travel found in religious 6 The Science of Time Travel
traditions legends and folk and fairy tales involves time passing differently in two different worlds These worlds are sometimes called dimensions Such stories discussing this kind of time travel can be found in religions like Hinduism and Buddhism Fairy tales from Japan England and other parts of the world also use this idea In this kind of story a fairy or genie or some other supernatural being usually takes a human from the human world into a supernatural world This image of the legend of Rip Van Winkle was painted by John Quidor in 1849 A History of Time Travel 7
