One of the all time great films; mainly because it's a great story by HG Wells.
But it's so much more than a story. It's a comment on life; a fairy tale; a prediction; a history... a parable.
Delighted to find out (Google) that Rod Taylor is still alive at 82.
On Ch4 now.

Thanks for that sir...have my feet up this afternoon...a terrible cold I'm afraid. Chicken soup and scotch... Will tune in.

JK2006 wrote:
One of the all time great films; mainly because it's a great story by HG Wells.
But it's so much more than a story. It's a comment on life; a fairy tale; a prediction; a history... a parable.
Delighted to find out (Google) that Rod Taylor is still alive at 82.
On Ch4 now.

the original is better than the re-make with Guy Pearce. Met Rod Taylor a few years ago when he was making a film with my old pal Stephan Elliot. Lovely man.

"Which three books would you have taken?". Oh, yes.

I have both the versions on DVD but the Rod Taylor version had the edge; it just has a good feel about it. I like the extra up date on the DVD where Rod Taylor comes back to meet Alan Young (Filby) several years after.

Couldn't agree more. Great film. It fired my imagination as a kid when I first saw it and have been interested in time travel concept ever since. Oh to be an observer to some great past events...and future ones.

Impossible of course. Physicists have confirmed that time travel might only be possible if mankind develops a way of travelling faster than the speed of light...even then it would only be feasible to perhaps travel a period of about five years into the future...in a cheating kind of way...you'd simply be speeding up time...there would be no way of reversing back to from where you'd left. Even black holes couldn't possibly be corridors to the past as was at one time thought.

The past simply does not exist. There is no way of getting there.

Physicists, like the rest of us, are still learning and so they only operate within the bounds of probability. Knowledge is fluid.

"The past simply does not exist. There is no way of getting there." .. that we currently know of.

Pumpkinhead wrote:
Physicists, like the rest of us, are still learning and so they only operate within the bounds of probability. Knowledge is fluid.

"The past simply does not exist. There is no way of getting there." .. that we currently know of.

my NASA friend who was part of the team that discovered ice on Mars says scientists will not even think outside our universe as the possibilities are endless and too complex for our tiny (but larger than ITK's ) brains.

we could be surrounded by time travellers

www.telegraph.co.uk/science/7904712/Quan...ree-time-travel.html

Scientists have for some years been able to 'teleport' quantum states from one place to another. Now Seth Lloyd and his MIT team say that, using the same principles and a further strange quantum effect known as 'postselection', it should be possible to do the same backwards in time. Lloyd told the Technology Review: "It is possible for particles (and, in principle, people) to tunnel from the future to the past."

ITK wants to take us all back to the 1950s

I have a theory that we might be able to change the overall timeline but we will never be able to change our own timeline. If we can move from our own time (today) into another time zone (eg 1066), when we come back our personal clock will have kept running. What we did while in 1066 will already have happened. If we tried to make something, or stop something from happening, we would find that we have no real control.

I'd rather go into the past - especially to check out my ancestry - than go into the future.

Pumpkinhead wrote:
I have a theory that we might be able to change the overall timeline but we will never be able to change our own timeline. If we can move from our own time (today) into another time zone (eg 1066), when we come back our personal clock will have kept running. What we did while in 1066 will already have happened. If we tried to make something, or stop something from happening, we would find that we have no real control.

I'd rather go into the past - especially to check out my ancestry - than go into the future.

I'll be in that.
I'd go back to my ancestor Edward 111 and warn him that one of kitchen maids is going to get pregnant by some peasant and claim one of William's relatives knocked her up and someone called ITK would surface 600 years later and claim to be related to me.