Time travel

Time travel is the concept of traveling through time (either to the past or future). It exists mainly in fiction, and most believe time travel is not possible in the real world, although this has not been conclusively proven. There is a scientist named Ronald Mallett who is trying to develop a real time machine. A form of time travel into the future it possible - if one were to travel close to the speed of light, one would age much slower than anything stationary, so it would seems as if one had time traveled to the future. Time travel has captured the imagination of many authors and filmmakers, particularly in the 20th century.

In early science fiction novels, time travel was used to promote political ideas of utopia, mainly socialism. For instance, The Time Machine, the first novel to use this concept, is intended as a criticism of the class system. Edward Bellamy's novel Looking Backwards, written in 1887, centers around a contemporary man who goes into a hypnotic sleep and awakens 113 years later in the year 2000, by which time America has turned into a socialist utopia. However, the decreased popularity of socialism has contributed to the decline of this genre. While politically motivated science fiction still exists to a lesser extent, the vast majority of it is simply set in the future and does not involve time travel as a plot device.