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- Main Article: Time Travel physics
The Time Machine in its classic appearance.
The Time Machine runs off a mysterious crystalline substance, which is suffused into quartz rods, and the dials which helps in the navigation of machine works by noting the stress on a quartz block, although other sources indicate the material was held inside a special box to prevent radiation poisoning. This radioactive substance is an effective energy source.
The Time Traveler sits on a saddle inside the machine, and if he sticks his hand outside the temporal field then he'll feel pain as time accelerates. A similar incident involving someone half inside the time field will experience no side effects as long as the machine doesn't accelerate into the past or the future. If the machine accelerates into the future, then the individual would age to death before becoming a skeleton which will break part as time is forwarded. If the machine accelerated into the past in an incident like this, then the individual will regress into childhood presumably.
In some sources, the chronometic dials are adpated from epic games gauges that count the number of days, or are simply built along the calender system by other versions of the Time Traveler.
History[]
After The Time Traveler first obtained Plattnerite, he experimented with it, first using it to power other machines, such as his mechanical bicycle and a flying machine. However, when his partner Emma died, he decided to make a time machine and save her from dying. During the machine's initial testing phase, Edward Turnbull and Amelia Fitzgibbon took the machine on its first voyage, unknown to The Time Traveler. The machine took them to the year 1903, where they witnessed a world at war with Mars, and then, by accident after one of the components had been loosened, it took them through space to the planet Mars. The machine then automatically returned to the Time Traveler's laboratory in 1893, without its passengers, never having been missed. ("The Space Machine")
In 1893, the machine had been completed and the Time Traveler took it on a voyage into the year 802,701. There, the machine was stolen by the Morlocks and dragged it inside their Sphinx, where they took it apart and put it back together, attempting to learn its function. Finally, the machine was used as bait in order to lure The Time Traveler into a trap. He willingly entered the trap, knowing he could escape on The Time Machine. ("The Time Machine: An Invention")
Based on the knowledge learned from taking it apart, the Morlocks were able to create a fleet of identical Time Machines, which they used to invade their far future, which was inhabited by intelligent Crab monsters. ("On the Surface")
The Time Traveler intended to use the machine to return to the future and rescue Weena. At this point, the timeline splits. ("The Time Machine: An Invention", "The Time Ships", etc.)
The Time Ships[]
The Time Traveler traveled forward in time to the year 657,209, where he saw that history had unfolded differently than the first time he'd traveled through time. A Sphere had been constructed around the sun. When he explored this era, encountering Morlocks, he attacked some of them who were investigating his machine, before being apprehended and questioned by Nebogipfel.
The two would then travel back in time to The Time Traveler's past, before the construction of the machine, where they met Moses. Then, the three time travelers, along with the machine, were captured by future British time travelers and taken to their city. They never recovered The Time Machine, instead escaping on a Time Car. Much later, however, the Intellig