H.G. Wells, September 21, 1866 - August 13, 1946

I read a bunch of his books when I was a kid, and enjoyed them all. Being fascinated then by the idea of time travel, my favorite was, of course, The Time Machine. Now, I don't think time travel is really possible, though every now and then I read somewhere that some scientists think it is.

Technically, I guess you could go forward in time if you could accelerate to something close to the speed of light or get really close to a black hole and somehow escape, but I'm very sure going backward can't be done. Some people may think it can, and that some day somebody will figure out how.

Here's why I don't think so. If somebody ever does figure out how to build a time machine that works, the first event we observe won't be that person building and trying out his time machine. It'll be that person appearing in his time machine from the future. If that could happen, it already would have.

That's what I think. It's still a cool story, though.

EDIT: His or her time machine. :)

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