by David Anderson, Ph.D.

(an excerpt from the video documentary "Time Travel: Journey's into Time")


Time in SF Thoughts | Time Travel Emerges | SF Time Travel to Future | SF Time Travel to Past | Escape to the Past | Science Fiction Paradoxes | Time Police | Alternate Worlds | SF Parallel Universes | Realm of Temporal Physics

Science fiction has been around for a long time... dating back to as early as 2000 B.C. and the Gilgamesh Epic - a Babylonian work Searching for Ultimate Knowledge & Immortality.

In the 4th Century B.C., Better worlds in the Republic by Plato had elements of science fiction.

In 160 A.D., In his work "True History", Lucian of Samosata Dealt with a trip to the moon.

In the 14th Century, there were many imaginary voyages in Greek & Roman Literature..

In 1627, The New Atlantis by Francis Bacon included science fiction.

17th Century, there were trips to the Moon by Francis Godwin, Cyrano de Bergerac, Johannes Kepler, 

and there are many, MANY more.

However, time travel itself didn't emerge in science fiction until only recently... in the late 1800s.

And what a good story line it was... 

Time travel in science fiction opens the doors to many exciting stories and possibilities... imagine traveling 

to the past to see events long gone...

or to the future to see the progress of humanity...

perhaps to the past to relive a sweet moment in our life...

or to the future to see the outcome of decision we make today...

Now, after more than 100 years of science fiction... these possibilities have a basis in solid scientific fact.

 




Time in SF Thoughts | Time Travel Emerges | SF Time Travel to Future | SF Time Travel to Past | Escape to the Past | Science Fiction Paradoxes | Time Police | Alternate Worlds | SF Parallel Universes | Realm of Temporal Physics