The music video, directed by Joseph Kahn, features the Wu-Tang Clan arguing in their time machine, and in argument accidentally sending themselves back to "2,000,000 BC", which bears strong resemblance to the representation of the Stone Age in The Flintstones.
He is unaware that a framed photograph of his own wife, which sits on his desk, is a portal to a third world where he is being watched by four Distinguishers on a hillside, who in turn are unaware that a robot fly is transmitting a live feed to a large screen in a building in New York City where they are being watched by a group of men, who are likewise being watched by two young men and a boy in an empty warehouse who think they have discovered a time machine.
Time travel, theorised and speculative concepts about travelling physically through time
A timeship is a kind of time machine, often seen in time travel science fiction.
Residents commonly referred to ATMs as a "Tyme machine," which has resulted in confusion when Wisconsinites visiting unfamiliar areas would ask the locals where they could find a "time machine".
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It is named after the TARDIS, the time travel vehicle used by the Doctor in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who.
Brian Michael Bendis, writer of All-New X-Men, stated that the use of time travel in the story is less important than the theme of characters exploring how the choices they make early in life affect them later on in life, in a manner similar to the 1986 feature film Peggy Sue Got Married.
In the 1994 novel End of an Era by Robert J. Sawyer, the Canadian protagonists' time machine is named His Majesty's Canadian Timeship Charles Hazelius Sternberg, because of the two scientists journeying back to the Cretaceous era, one is a paleontologist.
Among his other works are Puen Pang (1987), about two sisters in love with the same man; Muen and Rid (1994), a true story from Rama IV-era Siam about a woman who petitioned King Mongkut to make equal rights for women; and Tawipob (1990), the first film adaptation of a novel by Thommayanti, about a modern-day socialite who time travels back to Rama V-era Siam and becomes involved in the political and diplomatic intrigue of the day.
Renegade time travelers meddle in the outcome of the Second Punic War, bringing about the premature deaths of Publius Cornelius Scipio and Scipio Africanus at the Battle of Ticinus in 218 BC, and thus creating a new timeline in which Hannibal destroys Rome in 210 BC.
The DeLorean DMC-12 shot to worldwide fame in the Back to the Future movie trilogy as the car made into a time machine by eccentric scientist Doctor Emmett L. Brown, although the company had ceased to exist before the first movie was made.
Over the years he produced several novels which gained some note for their interest in time travel and Latin America.
The stories Ado and Winter's Tale both refer to William Shakespeare, while Time Out, like her time travel novels, explores the nature of time.
King Hiram is a character in the time travel story Ivory, and Apes, and Peacocks (1983) by Poul Anderson.
The Lazarus Long set of books involve time travel, parallel dimensions, free love, individualism, and a concept that Heinlein named World as Myth—the theory that universes are created by the act of imagining them, such that even fictional worlds are real.
He wrote and directed Heaven's Soldiers (2005), in which Halley's Comet causes North and South Korean soldiers to travel back in time from 2005 to 1572, where they join Korean national hero Yi Sun-sin in fighting the Jurchen tribes.
Another unique take on the concept is combining non-linear branching storytelling with the concepts of time travel and parallel universes.
In Life, the Universe and Everything Slartibartfast has joined the Campaign for Real Time (or CamTim as the volunteers casually refer to it, a reference to CAMRA) which tries to preserve events as they happened before time travelling was invented.
The weapon is released on the crew of the Nemesis as the evading Reptid ship time travels back into the early 21st century; the Nemesis, the only ship with time-traveling capabilities, pursues the Reptids to the past — only to be overwhelmed by their own emotions.
Colonel Repeatski sends the Super Time Force, a time-traveling military organization, to prehistoric times to save the dinosaurs from extinction.
A time traveller on a reconnaissance mission from the distant future became stranded in England of the late 1800s, and his technology came into the hands of the Royal Society led by Baron Fortesque (based upon Charles Babbage), a grand inventor.
As the investigation progresses, it is revealed that Tywood had developed a means to send objects back in time and that his plan was to improve the world by giving Hellenic Greece advanced knowledge in the form of chemistry.
As such an agent he makes a time travel machine and takes on a gang of Mayan priests who use the Mayan calendar to control the minds of slave laborers used for planting maize.
It is the last of the "Lazarus Long" cycle of stories, involving time travel, parallel dimensions, free love, voluntary incest, and a concept that Heinlein named pantheistic solipsism, or World as Myth — the theory that universes are created by the act of imagining them, so that somewhere (for example) the Land of Oz is real.
The album's title and seventh track, as well as the cover art, are references to the "Atavachron" alien time travel device from the Star Trek episode, "All Our Yesterdays".
Blinovitch is mentioned a number of times (presumably as an in-joke for Doctor Who viewers) in the romantic comedy Happy Accidents (2000), which has a plot involving time travel.
The term "bootstrap paradox" refers to the expression "pulling yourself up by your bootstraps"; the use of the term for the time-travel paradox was popularized by Robert A. Heinlein's story By His Bootstraps.
Forced into a grocery trip by herself, she is the only one outside of the Interpol-sponsored headquarters when a time-travel accident removes it and the entire team.
DC Comics Two Thousand, also known as DC Two Thousand and DC 2000, is a two-issue miniseries by DC Comics in which the Justice League of America and the Justice Society of America team up, via time travel, to stop the attempts of T. O. Morrow to alter the present by changing the past.
Travers was sent back from fifteen years in the future (using a copy of the time travel code from Futurama: Bender's Big Score) to stop Nixon from winning this election.
In the midst of a battle with a kraken, Hulkpool and his unwitting companions accidentally time travel to Dinosaur World where Devil Dinosaur, Moon-Boy and the Small-Folk help destroy the kraken.
In 1987 Tor published his first novel, Napoleon Disentimed, a parallel-universe and time-travel story of some complexity.
Weyoun initially seems incredulous, so Jake concocts a "more plausible" story: he and Nog are time travel agents investigating Willie Mays' sudden appearance in the Baseball Hall of Fame...
The castle was used as a setting for the medieval segment of a famous Franco-Belgian graphic novel on time travel: Le Piège diabolique (The Diabolical Trap) of the Blake and Mortimer series by Edgar Pierre Jacobs.
His last big project was The Rook series for Warren Publishing, a black-and-white time travel series which played to his strengths as a Western and science fiction artist.
The Monk liked to meddle in history and to change it for his own amusement and for what he considered to be the better: lending mechanical assistance to the builders of Stonehenge; giving Leonardo da Vinci tips on aircraft design; making money by using time travel to exploit compound interest; and, when the Doctor first encountered him, attempting to prevent the Norman Conquest as part of a plan to guide England into an early age of technological prosperity.
It is a subcategory of "mental time travel" which Suddendorf and Corballis described to be the process that allows people to imagine both past and potential future events.
Mortal Chaos is inspired by the work of Edward Lorenz and Ray Bradbury's 1952 story "A Sound of Thunder", in which the concept of sensitive dependence on initial conditions is applied to time travel.
Destination Indiana, an interactive virtual time-travel experience for the Indiana Historical Society in Indianapolis, IN.
Excited by the stories he knows about Easter Island, Mampato, a young boy with a belt device that allows time-travel, goes with his caveman friend Ogú to the ancient land of pre-columbian Rapa Nui.
Per Welinder was a stunt double for some of Michael J. Fox´s skateboard scenes in the classic 1985 time travel movie Back to the Future.
In Eric Flint's alternate history (a time travel variation) he postulates an Assiti Shard event which juxtaposes parts of our planet including the town of Grantville, West Virginia in both space and time—a twist on scientist's referring to a space-time continuum in relativistic (Einsteinian) physics.
The Class of 2012 used a time travel theme, in which two teachers travel back in time to stop the local CVS from being built, causing the end of the world.
Kip Thorne, however, said that none of the supposed paradoxes formulated in time travel stories can actually be formulated at a precise physical level: that is, any situation in a time travel story turns out to permit many consistent solutions.
Sam complains he is now "too stupid" to fix things; Jenna pinky-swears him to not time-travel anymore.
Rhys Hughes, in his survey of Bayley's output, described the novel as "possibly the ultimate time-travel story," noting that, unlike Collision Course, Bayley stuck to his main theme throughout.
Joseph finds a time-travel capsule that Budu had hidden on Morro Rock and goes to Options Research in search of Mendoza.
The shoulder strap had the words: "Yellow King, 8061, Danger, Light, Plutonian, H, Poplar Trees, Temple 1954" which translate into: Basam Damdu, the year of origin of the invaders, the threat, the lights used for time travel, the plutonium that is part of the H-bombs, Operation Poplar Trees and a comet discovered by Wilhelm Tempel which is due to appear on the 17 October 1954 in just a few days time and will be used to get the bombs into the future.
Thiudehad appears as a character in the time travel novel Lest Darkness Fall, by L. Sprague de Camp.
Tipler cylinder, a hypothetical object theorized to allow time travel
The practice of saying "may he live forever" after the Tisroc's name is borrowed from Edith Nesbit's description of Babylonian customs in her time-travel story The Story of the Amulet.
Learning that Gokaigers are in different times in Europe and Gorisaki in Laurasia, the Go-Busters learn they can retrieve them by using GozyuDrill's time travel ability on their Megazords within a 45 minute time limit.
He embarks on a medieval, time-travel quest to find his enchanted sister and ends up in Camelot before King Arthur.
In the television show Charmed, a Salem antagonist midwife, Ruth Cobb (Judy Geeson) from the 17th century uses the Tarot deck to foretell the future of the Halliwell Sisters during their time travel to witch-hunt times.