Time Travel

This week, my mind has drifted to time travel. This is most likely due to the fact that I have been reading "The Time Machine" by HG Wells. I've never read anything by him before, but I'd like to, now that I've finished this one. It was quite interesting. Apparently, it was this book that started the idea of purposeful and directed time travel in the sci-fi community. Before this, 'time travel' books were simply about psychological time travel experiences, such as recalling past lives, or divine interventions. The advent of the popularization of the idea of technological time travel is attributed to him. When read in that light, it makes the story quite ingenious.

The elevators at my office look like they could be time machines. The buttons are labelled as follows:

5
4
3
2
G

Everytime I go from the fifth floor to the ground floor, I can't help but think, "I can count to G!". If this puzzles you, you definitely haven't been watching enough Teen Girl Squad.

If you could travel to any time period just to observe, which one would you choose? Would you witness the dawn of creation? Perhaps a visit to the Hanging Gardens of Babylon around 600 BC? How about going to 802701 AD to see how accurate HG Wells' predictions were? As for me, I think I'd go back to 1497 AD to see where John Cabot first landed. I would like to know if it really was Newfoundland that was the first part of North America discovered by the early modern Europeans, or whether it was Nova Scotia or Maine.

Speaking of time, lunchtime is coming up in a few minutes, and you know what they say about lunchtime.

Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so.
- Ford Prefect, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy