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Is time travel possible?

Brains On! Science podcast for kids

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Time Travel Stories Are as Old as Civilization

The first time travel story that we know about is almost 25 hundred years old, and that's the story of king cacodme from the indian epoc. We've seen stories about police boxes and pone booths and cars and even hot tubs that could take us through time. When you get to the twentieth century, when albert einstein got really popular, people all of a sudden get interested in the science behind time travel rather than just building the machines. And so they started imagining machines in their own stories.

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