A wonderful fantasy beyond conventional thinking
thought about it. It’s pretty simple, and happily supports contrasts. We cannot see it or appreciate the machine, any more than we can speak of the turning of a wheel, or of a bullet flying through the air.
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If it is going fifty times or a hundred times faster than us, if it goes by in a minute while we go by in a second, the impression it makes will surely be only a fiftieth or a hundredth of that.
If not time travel, make it. It’s quite simple.’ He ran his hand through the area where the machine was. ‘Seeing?’ he said with a laugh. We sat and stared at the empty table for a minute or so.
Then the time traveler asked us what we thought about it all. ‘It seems plausible enough to-night,’ said the medical man. But wait till tomorrow. Wait for the wisdom of the morning.’
‘Would you like to see the time machine yourself?’ asked the time traveler. And took the lamp in hand with him and took the way down