We've all become time travellers this year. Just not the way it looks on screen

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The passing of time has been knocked out of joint by the coronavirus pandemic and lockdown. So can time travel fictions offer assistance?

Rod Taylor in The Time Machine, 1960.It might well be that these permutations of time speak to us because we don't experience the passing of time purely in theway. We're always being confronted by our past selves, and the future sometimes seems all around us. Time can stretch and warp in ways that will make your head spin, as anyone home-schooling can attest. And what happened to August?

The reason, as Gleick sees it, is that “no one bothered with the future in 1516. It was indistinguishable from the present.” When pretty much every day looks the same – when every year looks the same – there's not much cause to imagine stepping through a portal and finding yourself 50 years in the past or future.It was only in the 1800s that people began wondering what the world might look like a hundred years ahead.

 

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