This week brings a Los Angeles screening of "Primer," a brilliant film about young engineers torn apart by a time machine, after which Clifford V. Johnson of the University of Southern California will marvel at the "deliciously confusing" plot and discuss the physics of time travel.
Imagine that you are transported by a time machine to somewhen in the depths of prehistory, like maybe 2005 or something.
Phillip Taylor, a freshman, whose dark suit, black curly hair and wayfarer glasses might make you think he was plucked by a time machine from jazz's Golden Age, took Davis' bench at the piano and played "Some Day My Prince Will Come" with an ease and improvisational virtuosity that turned heads.
Not so long ago, the celebrity version was shunted off to daytime to save everyone the agony of watching Danny Goffey and Tim Lovejoy attempt to travel back to the 1990s by building a time machine out of discarded potato scraps.
Al's (short for Albert, as in you know who) engineer father Pye (short for Pythagoras, naturally) is dead, but he has left his son a letter inviting him to alter history by using a time machine he has constructed in an old bunker, and voyaging back in time to warn the young Pye about an impending go-kart accident which will eventually bring about his death.
After what is later believed to have been at least three months, Daniel is finally able to reconstruct the planet's history with the finished translations: the Ancients had attempted to escape a mysterious plague by building a time machine but never got it to work properly.
A book review in Science Times last Tuesday about "How to Build a Time Machine," by Paul Davies, reversed the comparison between the running of time on a mountaintop and at sea level.
Correction: April 30 , 2002 Tuesday A book review in Science Times last Tuesday about "How to Build a Time Machine," by Paul Davies, reversed the comparison between the running of time on a mountaintop and at sea level.
After inadvertently creating a time machine by wedging his hand in a toaster, hapless Homer Simpson finds himself in Flanders's manically grinning diddly-iddly-dictatorship, where constant happiness is a legal requirement and any deviancy from the norm is punishable by lobotomy.
The DeLorean name is iconic thanks largely to Back to the Future, in which one of the original automaker's cars was turned into a time machine by 'Doc' Emmett Brown.
In an episode of Celebrity Deathmatch, Beck was featured fighting Björk in a "battle to be the best monosyllabic musician of all time", which ended with both of them slain by Bach, who appeared via a time machine.
