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The World’s First Time Machine

written and directed by Ben Bowie

Documentary on time travel, paradoxes, special relativity, quantum mechanics, frame dragging, and more—told largely through interviews with modern physicists with a backdrop of a corny Museum of Time Travel in the future. Good explanation of relativistic time dilation using Einstein’s twin brother Bertrand and a light clock. Fun interview with physicist David Deutsch about the quantum multiverse and its relation to time travel paradoxes. Fun discussion of the first Superman movie. Jaw-dropping first-hand explanation from physicist Ron Mallet of how light might twist spacetime and result in particles being sent to the past. Attractive fashions worn in the museum of the future.
— Michael Main
David Deutsch: If Ron Mallet’s experiments turn out has he hopes, then it would immediately put an end to the controversy about whether time travel would ever be practicable.
DEBUT
The World’s First Time Machine (The Learning Channel, USA, and Channel Four, UK, Fall 2013).
VARIANTS
2 English variants
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INDEXER NOTES (SPOILERS!)
  • Release—Several online references indicate a 3 December 2003 airing in the USA on <i>The Learning Channel,</i> possibly with the title <i>Time Machine.</i> The production credits also list Channel Four Television Corporation [UK], but we haven’t found any broadcast information for them.
  • Credits—from the end credits in the documentary