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.
The World’s First Time Machine written and directed by Ben
Bowie (The Learning Channel, USA, and Channel Four, UK, Fall 2013).