Product Details

• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Wgbh
• VHS Release Date: January 1, 1999
• Run Time: 60 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 1578072093
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #301,494 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

In man's wildest fantasies and Hollywood's most outrageous adventures, time travel is the ultimate thrill ride. But The Terminator and Dr. Who aren't the only ones fascinated with the idea of revisiting the past. Inspired by Carl Sagan's novel Contact, scientist Kip Thorne has postulated how time travel might be possible. Join NOVA for this wonderfully head-spinning trip to see how one man has created a theoretical time machine that may turn dreams into reality.

Thorne believes that someday, if a civilization far more advanced than ours could harness and manipulate "wormholes"—theoretical tunnels through space and time—they might be able to go back in time to arrive at a place before departing. Discover the wicked paradoxes of his theory, and learn how the emergence of new "quantum gravity" laws are creating heated scientific debate. And see how Thorne and other top scientists from around the world—including physicist Stephen Hawking—are pushing physics to the limit in an attempt to "understand" the true nature of time and space.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars For quantum physics buffs., February 18, 2002

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Tony White (Rainsville, AL) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Time Travel [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Scientists with an imagination. I love it. It gives us SciFi
fans a reason to believe.

4.0 out of 5 stars Very informative, but I have a question..., September 15, 2004

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Henny Hanson "A Reader" (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Time Travel [VHS] (VHS Tape)

This is a great pbs production and I definitely want to show it to my students! But what is the title of the movie, from which Time Travel shows us scenes of a man trying to shoot Hitler from his room? I may want to show that movie to my students too... Thanks, if anyone knows!

5.0 out of 5 stars Entertaining, Educating and Intriguing ..., June 2, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Time Travel [VHS] (VHS Tape)

For all those facinated by the secrets of the Universe around us. The video describes the realities of time travel by using simple and interesting examples, animations and experiments without making any compromise with the nature of the truth known so far. Certainly worthwhile to watch unless you are a time traveler who has seen and known better then the earthlings ...