The Internet Time Travel Database
The work was reprinted in 1930 as the first part of The World Below along with a second part (later called The Dwellers.
It’s true enough, what they’ve told you, as far as we can tell it. As to theories of
time and space, I know no more than you do. I used to think they were obvious. I’ve
heard the Professor talk two nights a week for three years, and I’ve realised that it
isn’t all quite as simple as it seemed, though I don’t get much further. But the next
room’s a fact. We lay things down on the central slab, and the room goes dark, and we
go back in two minutes, and it gets light again, and they’re still there. And the
Professor says he’s projected them 500,000 years ahead in the interval, and they
don’t look any the worse for the journey.
1 English variant