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ANNOUNCER
You're watching, History Television.
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NARRATOR
In 1895 writer H.G. Wells published his science fiction masterpiece "The Time Machine."
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This novel would be one in a long line of literature, motion pictures, and television shows
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depicting man breaking the laws of time and space to travel beyond his present existence.
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One of the great struggles, if not the greatest struggle, has been man versus time.
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I mean, we always want more.
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We are prisoners to time. Mankind has always been fascinated with the idea of escaping from it.
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To be able to go back in time and fix a mistake or change the outcome of a future event.
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It's a tantalizing prospect.
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Could it even be possible? Well what did Einstein think?
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Due to the extraordinary work of two men,
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Edward Page, his son Richard,
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and the personal tragedy that drove them, time travel became a reality.
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Anne told me that Edward worked for the government,
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but even she didn't know what he did.
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Time Travel? I always that that sounded like a bunch of bull----.
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I can only imagine what it must have been like...
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...to have been there when he actually
did it.
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We're no longer bound to the rules of time,
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but what of the rules of morality?
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It changed everything.
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NARRATOR
Storytellers hold a special place in the history of mankind.
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From the fables of Aesop to the Brothers Grimm,
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we look to storytellers to give us truth about human nature and our place within the world.
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To discuss the genre of time travel,
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it's place within science fiction,
and how it ultimately became a reality,
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we talked with noted author and screenwriter Kevin Ulrich.
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Ulrich is the creator of the popular time travel series "Nic of Time."
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We meet up with him at a book signing in Los Angeles, California.
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Time travel had already been a popular genre even before science fiction.
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You have fantasy stories where someone is magically transported to the past
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like Mark Twain's "A Connecticut
Yankee in King Arthur's Court"
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or they wake up in the future like "Rip Van Winkle."
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Even Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" has elements of time travel with Christmas Past, Present, and Future.
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To discuss the history of science fiction becoming science fact
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we talked with Professor Edward Yarborough of Harvard University.
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Prof. Yarborough is a professor of American History
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and one of the world's foremost authorities on the history of time travel.
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Before time travel became a reality mankind was always intrigued with how it could possibly work
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and many ideas and theories were purposed.
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For many years I subscribed to the multiverse theory.
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Which is that there can be numerous timelines
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and parallel universes running concurrently with our own.
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For an example...
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...if I go back in time and stop the Lincoln assassination
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I would immediately create a
new timeline which branches off from the old one.
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It is within this timeline that Lincoln would live.
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If I were to travel into the future,
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it would be the future of that new alternate
timeline not the one I originally came from.
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Another possibility was the fixed timeline theory.
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Now in the fixed timeline theory if you were
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to go back in time and accidentally kill someone you haven't altered the course of history,
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you were already a part of it.
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You were always meant to go back in time and accidentally kill that person.
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Your future was already a part of the past, and you couldn't change it.
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To discuss the hard science of time travel and the possibility of paradoxes
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with meet with Dr. Jack Fincher of Yale University.
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Dr. Fincher is an astrophysicist specializing
in quantum mechanics
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and the author of two New York Times bestselling books on the subject.
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An interesting side effect to the fixed timeline theory is the infinite loop.
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Now for example, say we take my grandfather's pocket watch...
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...lets say I go back in time and I lose the watch.
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Later on my grandfather finds the
watch and many years later gives it to me.
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Now the question becomes, where did the watch originally come from?
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Had I not gone back in time and lost the watch
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my grandfather never would have found it in order to give it to me,
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my grandfather couldn't have given
it to me if I hadn't lost it.
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So the pocket watch has now become stuck in an infinite loop.
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The final aspect of time travel we will explore is the moral implication of altering time.
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We meet with philosopher Dr. Adam Lindquist,
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international lecturer and a highly regarded
voice in the world of ethics.
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Most people had a basic understanding of what time travel was,
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or what it could be, from movies, TV shows, and books.
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They also realized the moral can of worms it would open.
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But we were all unprepared for when it actually happened.
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August 2, 1939, Physicists Leo Szilard and Albert Einstein,
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concerned by Nazi Germany's research into nuclear weapons,
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send a letter to American President, Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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The "Einstein-Szilard Letter" warned President Roosevelt about the Nazi nuclear program
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and urged him to create our own program to counter the threat from Germany.
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One month latter Nazi Germany invades Poland
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and plunges Europe into war.
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But it isn't until early 1942, when America has entered the war,
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that research into our own program begins in earnest.
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However by this time Adolph Hitler has already turned his attention to something beyond nuclear fusion.
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In July of 1942 Einstein writes another letter to President Roosevelt.
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Einstein was made aware, by sources back in Germany,
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that the Nazis were experimenting
in the manipulation of time and space.
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Einstein was very concerned about the Nazis actually becoming successful in doing this.
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He considered it and even bigger threat then the Atomic bomb.
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After receiving Einstein's letter President Roosevelt meets with him in secret.
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Soon after the president establishes a top secret
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research initiative code named "The Indiana Project".
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The project's main objective: To produce a machine
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capable of traveling through and altering time.
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The Indiana Project begins in secret in a small facility just outside Portland, Indiana.
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Initially the program consists of a small group of scientists
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but it soon expands to included several hundred workers.
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Only a select few know about the project's true objective.
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Washington was spending millions of dollars
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to fund the Indiana Project over the course
of the war
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and the Pentagon was not happy with the lack of, tangible, results.
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By 1944 the tide had turned in Europe and an Allied victory over Nazi Germany was inevitable.
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To offer insight into the Indiana Project's importance
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and place within the Pentagon we talked with General Douglas Sanborn.
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When Germany fell and the Nazi threat was subdued
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the Pentagon couldn't decide what to do with the Indiana Project.
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The project had it's supporters but some saw no reason why they should continue funding it.
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They felt the money could be better spent in preparation for the invasion of Japan.
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On August 6, 1945 the United States drops
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an atomic bomb upon the Japanese city of Hiroshima.
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[Atomic bomb blast]
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Steadfast the Japanese government refuses to surrender.
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Three days later a second bomb
is dropped over Nagasaki.
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On August 14th Japan surrenders and the second world war ends.
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With the war now over many government projects are either shut down or severely cut,
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but the Indiana Project manages to survive due to it's supporters in the Pentagon.
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They argued that the research could be useful down the line.
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The Indiana Project's budget is cut and many of the scientist leave for other employment.
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Among the researchers who remains with the project is a young physicist named Edward Page.
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Edward Charles Page was born in Boston, Massachusetts, on March 3rd 1916.
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He grew up in an upper middle class family the son of a doctor and socialite mother.
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He developed a love for reading, especially the science fiction stories of Jules Vern,
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H.G. Wells, and the adventures of Robert Louis Stevenson.
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His love of science fiction would lead to an interest in becoming a scientist himself.
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After graduating high school Edward enrolled at MIT.
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He graduated from MIT in the Spring of 1942,
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he was immediately offered a job from the
government to work at the Indiana Project.
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In addition to government resources and equipment, he was offered a full salary
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and a house for both himself and his wife Anne.
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Anne Havard was born in Paterson, New Jersey on May 25th, 1921.
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A precocious child Anne had a love of nature and science at an early age.
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Anne moved with her parents to Boston when she was around six years old.
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She attended Brighton High School, graduated valedictorian
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and then was accepted to MIT in the fall of 1939.
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Anne was working as a research assistant at MIT when she met Edward.
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Spending long hours in the lab together their relationship soon turned to romance.
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Edward and Anne would marry
in June of 1941.
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When Edward was offered the government job Anne was pregnant and not in the best of health.
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She had wanted to stay on the East coast to be near her parents,
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but being the devoted wife she went with Edward to Indiana.
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She hoped the war would end quickly so they could come home.
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Soon after arriving in Portland, Anne gave birth to their son, Richard.
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Due to complications the birth had been quite difficult and Anne remained bedridden for several weeks.
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Edward wasn't particularly good with the baby
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and after a few days Anne called me to come stay with them until she was well.
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Anne's health improved and she grew fond of motherhood and raising young Richard.
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When the war was over Anne hoped they would move back to Boston.
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But in early 1946 Edward accepted the position of head researcher for the Indiana Project.
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He took it very seriously and devoted himself completely to it,
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and as a result his relationship with Anne would begin to strain.
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Edward was spending more and more time in the lab.
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Due to the limited funds he ran a
very tight ship
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and Edward ended up doing most of the lab work himself.
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Anne wrote me a letter in the fall of forty-eight about how lonely she felt.
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Edward was spending more time in the lab and Richard had started elementary school.
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She confided in me that she hoped to have another baby.
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Unfortunately another child was not in her future.
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In the summer of 1949 Anne had become
sick and was bedridden once more.
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At first Anne just thought she had the flu and so she stayed in bed,
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but Edward was never really good at taking care of anyone especially when they were sick
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so Anne sent for her friend Dorothy to come out and help.
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I came as soon as I heard.
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When I got there she was already frail and was having difficulty breathing.
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I just had a feeling she wasn't going to make it though the night.
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I tried to call Edward at his office but there was no response.
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I decided to call an ambulance
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Apparently Edward had taken the phone off the hook so that he wouldn't be disturbed.
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So Dorothy sent her husband Mike to the Indiana Project to get Edward
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and bring him to the hospital.
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By the time Mike drives him to the hospital Anne had already died.
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Edward was devastated.
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It wasn't until after she died that we found out she was suffering from polio.
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Dr. Helen Cagle of John Hopkins University is a specialist in the treatment of infectious diseases.
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We met with her to talk about the polio epidemic in America during the 1940s and 50s.
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In the summer of 1949 there was a serious polio epidemic that swept through Indiana.
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All public activities and gatherings were banned to prevent the spread of the disease.
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We think of polio as something affecting young children, and infants,
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but adults could contract the disease as well.
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Unfortunately Anne was one of the unlucky ones who did.
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Edward had no idea how sick she really was.
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I told him he wasn't home enough to notice.
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I thought Anne's death would change him but it only made him worse.
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Haunted by the death of his wife Edward completely withdrew from everyday life
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and spent his time in the lab.
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Edward blamed himself for his wife's death.
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I mean here he was a man of science and he couldn't even save his own wife.
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If he could invent a time machine he could go back and save Anne.
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He thought he could cheat death through science.
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All he needed was time.
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Driven by remorse and regret Edward would
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spend the next twenty years of his life trying to find a way to travel through time.
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[Rock and Roll, electric guitar]
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By the 1960s the Indiana Project was all but forgotten, due to the space race.
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I mean, here we have NASA spending billions,
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to beat the Russians to the moon, but over
here in Indiana still Edward working in his little lab.
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In the Fall of 1960 Edward's son Richard follows in his father's footsteps when he's accepted to MIT.
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Richard and his father had an unusual relationship since Anne's death.
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Richard admired Edward,as a scientist, and respected him as his father, but they were never truly close.
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Not as close as Richard wanted them to be.
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Deep down I think becoming a physicist
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was a way that Richard thought that he could really connect with his father.
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He had to get inside his world.
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Richard graduates from MIT in 1968 and accepts a research position at the University of Indiana.
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When the space race was going on NASA overshadowed everything, including the Indiana Project.
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It managed to survived just simply by being under the radar.
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But by the early 70s, with the space race over
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and Vietnam bleeding the Pentagon dry, cuts had to be made.
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That's when the Indiana Project ending up on the chopping block.
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Despite numerous letters from Edward asking them to reconsider the idea
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the Pentagon shuts down the Indiana Project in the Fall of 1975.
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To them they saw Edward as a relic of the past, a crackpot, and they thought his research was just a joke.
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Edward was devastated. His decades of research, his work, all gone.
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It was like losing his wife all over again.
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He couldn't take it.
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On November 5th, 1975 Edward Page suffers a major heart attack and dies the following day.
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He was 59 years old.
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Richard takes the death of Edward very hard.
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He waited his whole life, he worked his whole life,
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to have an opportunity to spend some meaningful time with him and it doesn't happen.
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Richard returns to Portland after Edward's death to sell his parent's home.
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While cleaning out his parent's house Richard makes an extraordinary discovery.
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So Richard is boxing up his father's personal belongings
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when he finds a loose floorboard under the bed.
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Inside is his father's personal journal detailing all of his research into time travel.
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Richard is blown away by his father's journal.
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He knew that Edward had been working for the government and that his job was classified,
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but he had no idea that this, was what he
was devoting his whole life toward.
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In the journal Richard finds a picture of his mother.
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Written on the back, in his father handwriting, is the message "In time, I will save you."
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That night Richard just pours over his father's journal
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and he realizes his father was very close to making time travel a possibility.
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This research was his father's legacy
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and Richard took it upon himself to prove his father right.
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Taking up the challenge of his father's work would prove to be more difficult then Richard realized.
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He would spend the next decade trying to achieve his father's goal.
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The idea of time travel is very seductive.
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Richard started out to prove his father's theories correct but it soon became a personal obsession.
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Like his father Richard withdrew from society to completely focus on his work.
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He rarely, if ever, seen outside the lab.
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His students became very frustrated he never showed up to class to lecture he just showed up on test days.
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Had Richard not continued his father's journal this important period in his life, and history itself,
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would be a lost to us.
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November 6th, 1985. I have completed my father's legacy.
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Forty years of combined research has
led me to construct a machine to move man
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backwards and forward through time.
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Today I became the first person to do so.
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We know what Richard created and we know that it worked.
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But what we don't know, even to
this day, is how he did it.
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He never reveals the secrets in his journal.
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I can only imagine what it must have been like...
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...to have been there when he actually did it.
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The only thing we do know about that night comes from the video camera that Richard set up.
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First there's the time machine itself.
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It's surprisingly small, it looks like two VCRs stacked on top of each other with a controller.
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Inspired by H.G. Wells' "The Time Machine"
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Richard wanted something round that could be turned either direction to control the device.
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His ultimate choice was quite appropriate
for the 1980s.
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Richard Page built a time machine out of an Atari!
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Using the control knob of an Atari gaming
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system Richard could move himself through time.
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Turning the controller to the right sends you into the future.
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Turning the knob to the left sends you into the past.
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The first time Richard uses the device he decides to make only a very small jump.
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He turns the knob and is sent one minute into the future.
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However Richard reappears to us
only a second latter.
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This Richard is from the future.
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Now this "Future Richard" waits exactly one minute for the arrival of "Past Richard."
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This "Future Richard" then tells "Past Richard" to travel back in time one minute.
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"Past Richard" travels back in time to become "Future Richard."
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Wrap your head around that.
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Richard in his excitement of time traveling and meeting himself, decides to go back even further.
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Without thinking it through Richard decides to go back in time one day.
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He turns the knob to the left, vanishes.
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When he goes back in time one day Richard fails to take into account
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that there will not be a time machine waiting for him because he has yet to complete it.
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So he ends up spending the night in a broom closet waiting for his past self to finish the machine.
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Richard quickly learned the dangers of using such a device.
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He realized that the machine must be portable,
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otherwise you could stuck in the past with no way to come back.
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To call Richard's achievement ground breaking would be an understatement.
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We are no longer bound to the rules of time.
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But what of the rules of morality?
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A machine that can alter history is power that could be very dangerous in the wrong hands.
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Aware of the potential danger in such a device Richard vows not to go back in time and change things.
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But he just can't help himself.
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Pandora's Box has just been opened.
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There was one thing that Richard always wanted, and that was to see his mother again.
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He has a machine that can do that
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and not only can he see her again, he doesn't have to lose her at all.
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At the time that she died the Polio vaccine was still several years away,
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but in the 1980s that's no longer an issue.
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Richard thinks long and hard about what he plans to do.
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He weighs the options, the pros,
the cons, but in the end he decides to do it.
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Richard works for several months to make a portable version of the time machine.
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Unable to make it any smaller
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Richard determines that the machine would be something you wear like a backpack.
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Now the machine only moves you through time, not space.
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You can't start off in New York
and go back in time to ancient Rome.
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In order to do that you would have to physically be in Italy.
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Anne was born and raised in Paterson, New Jersey
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before her family moved to Boston so Richard would need to go there first.
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So he makes some calls and tracks down the house she grew up in.
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Acquiring a series of polio and booster shoots.
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Richard will travel back to the 1920s and
inoculate his newborn mother.
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[Automobile engine]
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December 13th 1985. I am currently sitting in a motel near my Mother's childhood home.
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Polio vaccination and booster shots lay on the table next to me.
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In a few minutes I will use them to cure my mother's illness and save her from death.
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I write this with the knowledge that my actions today may yield unintended ramifications.
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I only pray that it works.
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It works. The time machine works.
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December 5th 1987 will go down in history as one of the most important dates for mankind.
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Richard and Aden have finally fulfilled their father's work.
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It wasn't just a triumph for
mankind but a personal triumph as well.
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However the triumph was to be short lived.
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Immediately after their first successful test
Richard passes out.
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Aden rushes his brother to his hospital and begins treating him.
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Even though he was a well respected doctor Aden is stumped by his brother's sudden illness.
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He was concerned it might be a side effect of the machine.
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Now you have to remember that Aden has only been working with the device for the past few months.
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Richard had been working on it for thirteen years.
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Aden was worried that there might be some correlation with long time exposure to the device.
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Richard was in a comatose state for three days. Aden was baffled.
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[Hospital heart monitor beeps]
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On the third day Richard literally jumps out of bed and happily embraces his brother.
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Aden was taken aback. He said Richard hugged him as if they haven't seen each other in years.
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Aden runs some test but finds nothing medically wrong with his brother and releases him that evening.
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Returning to the lab Richard tells his brother about a dream he had while he was in the hospital.
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[Birds sing, wind blows through the tress]
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It's a dream about their mother and what their life would have been like had she not died giving birth to Aden.
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It's the one thing they both have always wanted.
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Aden more so because he never knew her.
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It's the reason why he became a doctor.
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Richard tells him, if a doctor had been there when their mother went into labor she wouldn't have died.
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Aden begins to figure out where Richard is going with this train of thought.
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And he wants nothing to do with it.
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He had a hard enough time with the fact that his brother had actually built a working time machine.
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But to go back in time and deliver
yourself? It was just too much.
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It's actually not that crazy if you really think about it.
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Richard and Aden debate throughout the whole night until Aden reappears. The machine works!
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Aden has now become the first person to travel through time.
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Richard asks Aden what it felt like to travel through time
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but before he can say anything
Aden inexplicably passes out.
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Richard takes Aden to the hospital where he spends the next three days in a coma.
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When Aden wakes up from his coma he is by all accounts perfectly healthy.
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The doctors can't find anything wrong with him.
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Medically speaking the cause of Aden's coma remains unknown. There's just very little evidence to go on.
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The only rational explanation is
the time machine.
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Curiously Richard is not at his brother's bedside during those three days.
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He only returns on the day that Aden wakes up from the coma.
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It's almost as if he knew what was going to
happen.
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Considering he built a time machine, maybe he did.
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January 29th, 1990. I arrived at the hospital this morning anticipating the Aden would soon recover.
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A few minutes after I entered his room Aden wakes from his coma.
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He told he understood what had happened to him and what we needed to do.
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Those fourteen years that Richard and Aden
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spent while working together on the time machine were leading up to an ultimate goal.
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When Anne died they were left with a cold and distant father.
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They thought if only they could go back in time and change one thing, just one,
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everything else would work itself out.
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Using the time machine they would go back in time to 1953 and stop the car accident that killed their mother.
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They we're unprepared for what was about to happen.
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The time machine was on and it was stable.
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NARRATOR
Sixteen years after their father's death his sons had completed his life work
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and built the world's first time machine.
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It is one of the great moments, if not the greatest moment in the history of science.
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The word history takes on a whole new meaning now.
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History is a living science because of
what they did.
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NARRATOR
Despite their accomplishments personal tragedy casts a long shadow over their work.
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Their mother's suicide in 1955 haunted them for the rest of their lives,
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and I think it's what really drove them, just like their father, to try and create the time machine.
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Edward was so obsessed with the machine that he completely overlooked the warning signs with Anne.
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All her life she had been plagued by terrible nightmares.
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She had this reoccurring nightmare where she was being repeatedly stabbed with needles.
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She never understood why.
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Even though Anne was a lovely person and a wonderful mother she had a dark side that was tormenting her.
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After narrowly surviving a car wreck in 53 Anne became a different person.
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She confided in me that she never understand why she was still here.
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She thought she should have died
in the accident.
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Edward quite sadly is oblivious to his wife's pain and suffering.
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He is so obsessed with creating the time machine that he is squandering the time he has.
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In Edward's mind once he
has the machine built he'll have all the time in the world.
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Unfortunately for Edward time ran out.
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On February 29, 1956 after sending Richard and Aden to school Anne commits suicide.
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She was 35 years old.
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She left a note saying it was the only way to cure her illness.
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Richard and Aden come home from school and find their mother dead.
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Richard was fourteen and Aden was only five.
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I can't imagine what that does to you, psychologically
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and I have no doubt that it was on their minds as they were finishing the machine.
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The temptation was certainly there for them to go back and to try and stop it
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but Richard realize that the best way to save their mother was through their father.
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March 6th 1994. After much debate Aden and myself have concluded that the reason
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our mother committed suicide was the that our father was never there for her.
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His obsession with the machine caused her to feel alienated and alone.
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Had my father been able to complete his research in her lifetime things may have turned out differently.
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We can only speculate what might have happened had they actually tried to go back.
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NARRATOR
July 1944. Racing against time the Indiana Project
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works around the clock trying to find the break through they desperately need.
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The Manhattan Project was making great strides with the atomic bomb
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but the Indiana Project was falling way behind, until Edward Page comes along.
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NARRATOR
Edward Page, a young researcher who had been working in the Indiana Project for several years,
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stuns his colleagues when he not only creates a series of equations that would produce time travel
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he builds a functioning prototype as well.
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Edward's research was years ahead of it's time.
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We're still not sure how he was able
to reach the conclusions that he did.
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People would ask him and he just would say "It came to me."
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As far as the military was concerned we now possessed the power to rewrite history as we saw fit.
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They wanted to immediately go back in time and assassinate Hitler. End the war before it even starts.
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NARRATOR
Now in control of a power far greater then the atomic bomb
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the United States prepares
to alter history and avoid the horrors of World War II.
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However President Roosevelt has second thoughts and he orders the Indiana Project to stand down.
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He felt that altering time was too risky and could have unintended ramifications.
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Roosevelt was right that we shouldn't be playing God.
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Our responsibility was to see that time
travel doesn't fall into the wrong hands.
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NARRATOR
However it was already too late.
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On January 17th, 1945 Soviet agents, who had infiltrated the Indiana Project,
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steal Edward's prototype along with all of his research.
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They plant a bomb that destroys several buildings at the facility.
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The spies manage to make their
way back to Moscow with the time machine.
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[File cabinet closes, bomb blast]
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If you thought the idea of Hitler with an atomic bomb was a bad idea,
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then Stalin with a time machine was terrifying.
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The Indiana Project was in shambles.
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They say not to put all your eggs in one basket, well the Indiana Project did.
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The Soviets now had the golden goose.
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Surviving the explosion with minor injuries Edward was tasked with rebuilding the prototype.
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Unfortunately most of his research and notes were either stolen or destroyed
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and he claimed it would take several years to rebuild it.
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Several years they did not have.
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NARRATOR
From the ashes of World War II a new conflict rose.
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The Cold War.
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The United States and the Soviet Union had emerged from the war as the two dominant superpowers.
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Immediately a battle for ideological and military supremacy began.
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With the time machine the Soviets clearly had an unbelievable advantage over us.
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Fortunately for us we still had Edward.
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Unfortunately Edward had not yet built a functioning prototype.
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Everyone was wondering what was
going on.
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Edward kept saying his research has been set back by several years
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but by 1947 the Pentagon began to become deeply concerned.
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Edward had built a time machine before. Why couldn't he do it again?
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Suspicion was beginning
to mount. What was he hiding?
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People began to suspect that Edward could be working for the Soviets.
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They pointed to the fact that once the prototype was stolen he conveniently forgot how to build it.
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The FBI and the newly formed CIA had both begin monitoring Edward's activity.
451
00:43:38,100 --> 00:43:44,700
Anne wrote me in the fall of 47 about how how strange Edward's behavior had been of late.
452
00:43:45,460 --> 00:43:51,240
He had become quite paranoid and was convinced that people were following him.
453
00:43:52,000 --> 00:43:57,980
NARRATOR
On June 20th, 1948 Edward resigns from the Indiana Project
454
00:43:57,980 --> 00:44:02,720
and takes a teaching job at Marshall College in upstate New York.
455
00:44:03,900 --> 00:44:08,040
Edward claimed he wanted to spend more time with his family.
456
00:44:08,040 --> 00:44:15,220
Anne was expecting their second child and he wanted to move back East so she could be closer to her parents.
457
00:44:15,900 --> 00:44:19,860
The Pentagon was very troubled when Edward left the Indiana Project.
458
00:44:19,860 --> 00:44:24,260
Especially going into academia where they felt he might run into communist sympathizers.
459
00:44:24,260 --> 00:44:28,760
In fact many of them felt it was only a matter of time before Edward ended up in Moscow.
460
00:44:29,080 --> 00:44:31,480
[Ticking clock]
461
00:44:31,880 --> 00:44:34,880
NARRATOR
Meanwhile recent developments had convinced the Pentagon
462
00:44:34,880 --> 00:44:39,500
that the Soviets were already altering time for their own purposes.
463
00:44:39,500 --> 00:44:45,560
[Ticking clock]
464
00:44:48,920 --> 00:44:49,940
[Tick]
465
00:44:49,940 --> 00:44:52,920
[Boom]
466
00:44:59,840 --> 00:45:05,600
We really can't comprehend what the Soviets did to the fabric of time.
467
00:45:05,600 --> 00:45:13,740
All that we know is that they beat us at everything, things they shouldn't have even known about.
468
00:45:15,640 --> 00:45:18,920
Time travel was the only possible explanation.
469
00:45:19,940 --> 00:45:25,980
With the time machine the Soviets could have gone back in time and prevented America from ever existing.
470
00:45:25,980 --> 00:45:28,600
But they were smarter then that.
471
00:45:28,600 --> 00:45:36,400
They realized that if they alter the past previous to Edward Page inventing the time machine,
472
00:45:36,400 --> 00:45:40,700
that he might never invent it at all.
473
00:45:40,700 --> 00:45:44,760
Recent history however would be up for grabs.
474
00:45:44,760 --> 00:45:50,700
The Soviets found the time machine
to be an invaluable tool for espionage.
475
00:45:51,260 --> 00:45:54,280
The Pentagon would be developing a new secret weapons system
476
00:45:54,280 --> 00:45:56,840
and somehow the Soviets would have one first.
477
00:45:56,840 --> 00:46:01,600
We would be developing a new aircraft and before we could even approve a prototype
478
00:46:01,606 --> 00:46:04,230
the Soviets would be flying the damn thing.
479
00:46:04,230 --> 00:46:08,620
It became quite clear what the Soviets were doing.
480
00:46:08,620 --> 00:46:14,320
They would wait for us to develop something, a new tank, missile system, whatever,
481
00:46:14,320 --> 00:46:18,960
and Soviet spies would smuggle the design back to Moscow.
482
00:46:18,960 --> 00:46:26,160
Then the Soviets would use the machine to go back in time and "invent" it before we did.
483
00:46:26,600 --> 00:46:31,120
Sputnik was based from an entirely American design.
484
00:46:31,540 --> 00:46:38,020
The day the blueprints were finalized was the same day the Soviets launched it into orbit.
485
00:46:39,180 --> 00:46:46,440
The Pentagon was understandably going ballistic but there wasn't anything we could do about it.
486
00:46:46,440 --> 00:46:53,300
The Indiana Project was lost without Edward, but there wasn't really anyone who trusted him.
487
00:46:54,680 --> 00:46:59,660
NARRATOR
Soon after Edward begins his new career as a college professor in upstate New York
488
00:46:59,660 --> 00:47:04,700
Anne gives birth to their second son, whom they name Aden.
489
00:47:04,700 --> 00:47:12,240
This was a relatively happy period for the Page Family, despite the shadow of suspicion hanging over Edward.
490
00:47:12,240 --> 00:47:19,020
Edward was still convinced that he was being followed and his paranoia frightened Anne
491
00:47:19,020 --> 00:47:24,740
but as long as he was working in the basement with the boys his delusions would subside.
492
00:47:25,480 --> 00:47:29,220
Richard and Aden loved working in the basement with Edward.
493
00:47:29,220 --> 00:47:35,430
They would spend all their time
together. They love being Dad's assistants.
494
00:47:36,500 --> 00:47:37,000
NARRATOR
Richard and Aden would follow in their father's footsteps
495
00:47:37,000 --> 00:47:44,420
and become physicists as well, both graduating from MIT.
496
00:47:45,060 --> 00:47:47,760
When Richard and then Aden moved out of the house to go to college
497
00:47:47,760 --> 00:47:57,820
Edward was left alone in his lab. His paranoia had again returned and Anne became concerned.
498
00:47:57,820 --> 00:48:00,640
Especially after the moon landing.
499
00:48:00,640 --> 00:48:04,040
[News Report Music]
500
00:48:04,040 --> 00:48:10,756
This is a special report from KRNK News. The space race is over.
501
00:48:10,760 --> 00:48:14,440
Man has landed on the Moon.
502
00:48:16,760 --> 00:48:19,240
I've just been handed an update.
503
00:48:19,240 --> 00:48:25,600
We have a message from, Yuri Gagarin, the first man to set foot upon the moon.
504
00:48:25,600 --> 00:48:27,020
It reads...
505
00:48:27,020 --> 00:48:34,420
"It's one small step for Russia, one giant leap for Communism."
506
00:48:35,140 --> 00:48:38,720
It was bad enough to have lost the Vietnam War in 68
507
00:48:38,720 --> 00:48:43,540
but to have them beat us to the
moon, it was just salt in the wound.
508
00:48:43,940 --> 00:48:47,960
It one of those moments you just don't forget,
509
00:48:47,960 --> 00:48:55,660
like when President Nixon was assassinated in Dallas. We all remember where we were.
510
00:48:55,660 --> 00:49:03,740
NARRATOR
What was suppose to be America's greatest triumph had become a national nightmare.
511
00:49:06,920 --> 00:49:13,340
The moon landing really galvanized Edward to want to rebuild the time machine.
512
00:49:13,340 --> 00:49:20,160
America had started its decline, Soviets had become the dominant superpower
513
00:49:20,160 --> 00:49:26,559
and Edward was determine to rebuild the machine, go back in time, and stop them.
514
00:49:27,640 --> 00:49:32,040
NARRATOR
As Edward secretly begins rebuilding the time machine in his basement
515
00:49:32,040 --> 00:49:35,740
Anne becomes ever increasingly concerned.
516
00:49:36,260 --> 00:49:40,760
Edward would spend all of his time down in the basement, Anne told me.
517
00:49:40,761 --> 00:49:45,339
She would ask him what he was up too and he wouldn't tell her.
518
00:49:45,340 --> 00:49:49,260
He would become very defensive.
519
00:49:49,260 --> 00:49:54,140
He told her that as long as she doesn't know anything they couldn't hurt her.
520
00:49:54,140 --> 00:49:56,840
She didn't know who "they" were.
521
00:49:57,840 --> 00:50:01,760
Edward's concerns were actually reasonably justified.
522
00:50:01,760 --> 00:50:09,000
He had kept a low profile since leaving the Indiana Project but the CIA still had an open case file on him
523
00:50:09,000 --> 00:50:12,180
and were waiting for him to do something to raise a red flag.
524
00:50:12,760 --> 00:50:16,060
The Soviets had also been keeping an eye on Edward.
525
00:50:16,060 --> 00:50:22,520
They had hoped that the bombing of the Indiana Project back in 45 would have killed him as well,
526
00:50:22,520 --> 00:50:27,160
but when he survived they feared he would rebuild another time machine.
527
00:50:27,740 --> 00:50:33,720
When Edward left the Indiana Project under a cloud of suspicion the Soviets determine
528
00:50:33,720 --> 00:50:37,740
that he would not attempt to rebuild the machine.
529
00:50:37,760 --> 00:50:43,640
But if he ever did he would become a major
threat.
530
00:50:44,860 --> 00:50:48,460
NARRATOR
Edward's work progresses but without government resources
531
00:50:48,460 --> 00:50:52,120
he lacks access to equipment he desperately needs.
532
00:50:52,120 --> 00:50:56,160
Edward decides to contact his sons for help.
533
00:50:57,140 --> 00:51:01,240
By the mid 1970s Richard and Aden were both working for MIT.
534
00:51:01,240 --> 00:51:08,060
Richard was a teacher in the physics department and Aden was a researcher working at the university.
535
00:51:08,560 --> 00:51:14,180
Edward needed access to equipment at MIT in order to continue his experiments
536
00:51:14,820 --> 00:51:18,500
but he'd have to tell Richard and Aden what he was up to.
537
00:51:19,140 --> 00:51:25,879
Edward tells them about the Indiana Project and his involvement in the creation of a time machine.
538
00:51:25,880 --> 00:51:29,820
Richard and Aden aren't sure what to believe.
539
00:51:29,820 --> 00:51:33,860
Now here's the part wherethe story takes a really strange turn.
540
00:51:33,860 --> 00:51:40,920
Edward tells Richard and Aden that he did not invent the time machine.
541
00:51:41,720 --> 00:51:43,000
They did.
542
00:51:54,900 --> 00:51:59,460
Edward tells Richard and Aden that back in 44
543
00:51:59,460 --> 00:52:05,500
when he was working for the Indiana Project that two time travelers from the future
544
00:52:05,509 --> 00:52:10,006
gave him the time machine as well as their research papers.
545
00:52:10,006 --> 00:52:14,500
He tells Richard and Aden that they were the two time travelers.
546
00:52:15,660 --> 00:52:19,440
Richard and Aden believed their dad had gone crazy.
547
00:52:19,440 --> 00:52:25,160
His paranoia had turned into a full
fledged delusion.
548
00:52:25,160 --> 00:52:30,319
Edward asked if he could run some experiments in Richard's lab. Richard said no.
549
00:52:30,800 --> 00:52:33,799
So Richard and Aden take their father home.
550
00:52:33,799 --> 00:52:38,839
They talk with their mother about Edward's
mental state and how he needs psychiatric help.
551
00:52:38,840 --> 00:52:43,489
Edward keeps insisting he's not crazy,
but no one will listen.
552
00:52:43,900 --> 00:52:47,280
Edward was not going to take no for an answer.
553
00:52:48,240 --> 00:52:55,980
NARRATOR
On the night of July 28th, 1975 Edward is caught breaking into Richard's lab at MIT.
554
00:52:57,180 --> 00:53:02,660
Edward is booked with breaking and entering and is taken to the police for questioning.
555
00:53:03,900 --> 00:53:09,592
When Edward was question by the police they asked him what was he doing in the lab
556
00:53:09,600 --> 00:53:14,600
and he told them he was gathering things for a time machine.
557
00:53:15,180 --> 00:53:18,960
He told them about the Indiana Project, the time travelers,
558
00:53:18,960 --> 00:53:23,760
and how KGB and CIA were keeping tabs on him.
559
00:53:24,060 --> 00:53:28,920
Edward's arrest certainly drew the attention of the CIA and the KGB.
560
00:53:29,420 --> 00:53:35,000
The police records indicated that he talked to them about the Indiana Project.
561
00:53:35,000 --> 00:53:38,560
Now whether the police believed it or not was irrelevant.
562
00:53:38,560 --> 00:53:45,059
Edward was now a liability and the Pentagon was afraid he would go to the press.
563
00:53:45,840 --> 00:53:47,780
But who would believe him?
564
00:53:48,120 --> 00:53:53,702
NARRATOR
Edward is released into Richard and Aden's custody and they take him home to Anne.
565
00:53:53,702 --> 00:53:58,270
They discuss the possibility of having Edward committed.
566
00:53:58,270 --> 00:54:02,700
The next day Richard and Aden meet with the university president
567
00:54:02,700 --> 00:54:05,640
to discuss having the charges against Edward dropped.
568
00:54:06,420 --> 00:54:14,040
Richard and Aden are able to have the charges dropped on the condition that Edward gets psychiatric help.
569
00:54:14,040 --> 00:54:18,400
They return to their parent's home to tell them the good news...
570
00:54:20,460 --> 00:54:22,840
...and that's when they found them.
571
00:54:26,720 --> 00:54:29,340
They found Edward first in the kitchen.
572
00:54:29,340 --> 00:54:37,320
One bullet to the temple. They found Anne in a bedroom closet where she had been hiding.
573
00:54:37,920 --> 00:54:43,940
Richard and Aden were devastated. They took the death of their parents very hard
574
00:54:43,940 --> 00:54:47,039
but circumstances remained unclear.
575
00:54:48,840 --> 00:54:51,760
NARRATOR
The police investigation into Edward and Anne's death
576
00:54:51,760 --> 00:54:55,240
ruled that the crime was a murder suicide carried out by Edward,
577
00:54:55,247 --> 00:54:58,106
a man suffering from serious delusions.
578
00:54:58,106 --> 00:55:02,060
Aden and Richard remained skeptical.
579
00:55:03,680 --> 00:55:07,320
Despite Edward's delusions Richard and Aden just couldn't believe
580
00:55:07,320 --> 00:55:10,935
that their father would murder their mother and then kill himself.
581
00:55:10,935 --> 00:55:16,289
It just didn't make sense. Too many things just didn't add up.
582
00:55:16,289 --> 00:55:25,075
This was no suicide. This was clearly a coordinated hit on a high value target.
583
00:55:25,080 --> 00:55:29,080
They never found finger prints on the gun.
584
00:55:29,080 --> 00:55:34,871
Edward shoots himself in the head and then wipes his own fingerprints from the gun?
585
00:55:34,880 --> 00:55:39,060
Give me a break. This was a complete cover up.
586
00:55:39,060 --> 00:55:45,559
The only question is who
was behind it. The KGB or the CIA?
587
00:55:46,840 --> 00:55:51,297
NARRATOR
While the cause of Edward and Anne's death would be shrouded in controversy
588
00:55:51,300 --> 00:55:59,860
for Richard and Aden there was little for them to do but try to move on with their lives.
589
00:56:15,880 --> 00:56:23,170
NARRATOR
Twenty years later Richard and Aden are contacted by a realtor about selling their parent's home.
590
00:56:25,520 --> 00:56:29,820
After their parent's death Richard and Aden never went back.
591
00:56:31,000 --> 00:56:35,799
The house was abandoned. It fell into disarray as did much of the surrounding neighborhood.
592
00:56:35,799 --> 00:56:39,400
A corporation came in and begin buying a lot of the property to build a factory
593
00:56:39,400 --> 00:56:43,530
and Richard and Aden agreed to sell.
594
00:56:45,780 --> 00:56:51,340
NARRATOR
Richard and Aden return to their parent’s home the day before it is scheduled to be torn down.
595
00:56:51,340 --> 00:56:56,700
They spend several hours looking around the house to see if anything is worth saving.
596
00:56:56,717 --> 00:57:02,104
In their parent’s bedroom, Richard, makes an extraordinary discovery.
597
00:57:02,104 --> 00:57:12,240
After stepping on an uneven floorboard and prying it loose Richard finds his father’s journal.
598
00:57:15,280 --> 00:57:19,300
Richard and Aden are floored by what they
read.
599
00:57:19,300 --> 00:57:22,880
Their father had been telling them the truth, the whole time,
600
00:57:22,880 --> 00:57:31,420
about The Indiana Project, about the Soviets, the spies, the KGB, time travelers, everything.
601
00:57:33,680 --> 00:57:38,940
NARRATOR
Inside the journal Richard and Aden find a photo of their parents.
602
00:57:40,980 --> 00:57:46,540
Written on the back
is the message “In time you will save us.”
603
00:57:46,540 --> 00:57:52,280
Richard and Aden realize what they must do.
604
00:57:56,720 --> 00:58:00,700
Richard and Aden begin the task of rebuilding the time machine.
605
00:58:00,700 --> 00:58:04,760
Edward's journal would provided the basic blueprints for building the machine
606
00:58:04,760 --> 00:58:07,500
but they would have to fill in the blanks.
607
00:58:08,360 --> 00:58:10,620
The reason Edward was not able to rebuild
608
00:58:10,620 --> 00:58:17,000
the time machine was because he never had a chance to reverse engineer it before the Soviets stole it.
609
00:58:17,500 --> 00:58:24,180
The journal was just a holy
grail of information but it was incomplete.
610
00:58:24,180 --> 00:58:28,340
It would be up to then to finish their father's
work.
611
00:58:31,140 --> 00:58:34,760
They used whatever they could find to help build the machine.
612
00:58:34,760 --> 00:58:39,980
Spare parts, old machines, things that the university wouldn't miss.
613
00:58:41,300 --> 00:58:44,340
They would have used an Atari if they had one.
614
00:58:45,120 --> 00:58:50,100
NARRATOR
Richard and Aden's activity draws the attention of the university.
615
00:58:50,100 --> 00:58:55,779
It also draws the attention of both the CIA and the KGB.
616
00:58:56,740 --> 00:59:04,115
After Edward and Anne's "death" the KGB kept tabs on Richard and Aden's activity.
617
00:59:04,120 --> 00:59:09,519
For twenty years they monitored them waiting on them to make a move.
618
00:59:10,280 --> 00:59:15,020
Richard and Aden both begin to spend all of their waking hours working on the time machine
619
00:59:15,020 --> 00:59:18,340
and their colleagues and students at MIT begin to take notice.
620
00:59:19,040 --> 00:59:22,800
Students complained that Aden only showed up to class to give tests.
621
00:59:22,800 --> 00:59:26,400
Richard, his colleagues very worried about him,
622
00:59:26,400 --> 00:59:30,540
that he was spending way too much time on non-university related projects.
623
00:59:31,140 --> 00:59:34,460
The blackout is what really got them in trouble.
624
00:59:35,000 --> 00:59:40,740
NARRATOR
On the evening of March 8th, 1995 at approximately 7:43pm
625
00:59:40,740 --> 00:59:44,960
a power surge causes the MIT campus to go dark.
626
00:59:44,960 --> 00:59:49,120
The source of the power surge is traced back to Richard's lab
627
00:59:50,480 --> 00:59:53,880
Richard and Aden are both brought before the university President
628
00:59:53,880 --> 00:59:57,880
and reprimanded for misusing school equipment for their own purposes.
629
00:59:57,880 --> 01:00:00,600
They're both placed on temporary suspension.
630
01:00:01,100 --> 01:00:04,280
The blackout makes national headlines
631
01:00:04,280 --> 01:00:09,400
and a CIA investigation concludes that Richard and Aden are building a new time machine.
632
01:00:09,400 --> 01:00:11,340
That's when they decided to pay a visit.
633
01:00:12,960 --> 01:00:16,400
On their way home from the meeting with the university president
634
01:00:16,400 --> 01:00:23,019
both Richard and Aden are intercepted by the CIA and taken to an undisclosed location.
635
01:00:28,000 --> 01:00:33,393
The CIA inform Richard and Aden that they know they are trying to rebuild the time machine.
636
01:00:33,393 --> 01:00:38,647
They warn them that the KGB is aware of their activities and will try to kill them.
637
01:00:38,647 --> 01:00:43,470
The CIA offers them protection and funding in exchange for the time machine.
638
01:00:43,470 --> 01:00:48,079
Richard and Aden really don't have a choice.
639
01:00:48,080 --> 01:00:49,960
It's an offer they can't refused.
640
01:00:50,800 --> 01:00:55,440
NARRATOR
The Indiana Project which had been defunct for decades is reopened
641
01:00:55,440 --> 01:00:58,880
as Richard and Aden set up a new research lab.
642
01:01:00,380 --> 01:01:02,340
Richard and Aden make great strives towards
643
01:01:02,340 --> 01:01:06,820
completing the machine but they're under extreme pressure from the Pentagon to do so.
644
01:01:07,260 --> 01:01:12,640
They now know the intense scrutiny their dad was under when he was in their position all those years ago.
645
01:01:13,860 --> 01:01:20,380
NARRATOR
With unlimited government resources Richard and Aden are able to fill in the gaps in their father's research.
646
01:01:21,060 --> 01:01:26,160
The problem that Edward was having when he originally tried to reverse engineer the machine
647
01:01:26,163 --> 01:01:30,982
was that many of the components were beyond the limits of 1940s technology.
648
01:01:30,982 --> 01:01:35,920
Richard and Aden were able solve these problems with relative ease.
649
01:01:37,100 --> 01:01:44,180
NARRATOR
On November 12th, 1996, fifty years after Edward's time machine was lost
650
01:01:44,180 --> 01:01:47,660
Richard and Aden successfully rebuild it.
651
01:01:48,880 --> 01:01:55,973
Richard and Aden had no intention of turning the machine over to the Pentagon when they finished it.
652
01:01:55,980 --> 01:02:00,913
Edward's journal made it very clear what they should do.
653
01:02:02,000 --> 01:02:06,800
Richard tells Aden that he himself must do it alone.
654
01:02:07,360 --> 01:02:10,620
The only question is would it work?
655
01:02:12,000 --> 01:02:14,520
That's the question that we'll never know the answer to.
656
01:02:15,440 --> 01:02:22,020
NARRATOR
The explosion that brought an end to Edward's prototype also brought an end to the Indiana Project.
657
01:02:22,020 --> 01:02:27,256
With their research set back by years and the war drawing to a close
658
01:02:27,260 --> 01:02:31,220
the Pentagon permanently shuts the project down.
659
01:02:32,980 --> 01:02:38,140
Once the war was over the Pentagon saw no reason to keep funding the Indiana Project.
660
01:02:38,140 --> 01:02:39,440
Time travel?
661
01:02:39,440 --> 01:02:42,280
I always thought that sounded like a bunch of bull----.
662
01:02:42,840 --> 01:02:46,799
Edward's research into time travel had been the most promising
663
01:02:46,800 --> 01:02:51,700
and had it not been for that accident it could have been a much different story.
664
01:02:52,980 --> 01:02:55,180
Who knows what could have happened?
665
01:02:55,720 --> 01:03:02,540
There's so many unknowns, so many possibilities, so many might have beens.
666
01:03:03,440 --> 01:03:09,973
The Indiana Project teaches us what is truly important about time and that is making every second count.
667
01:03:10,620 --> 01:03:14,380
The accident really woke Edward up to what his priorities were,
668
01:03:14,380 --> 01:03:17,340
and that was spending time with the ones he loved.
669
01:03:18,700 --> 01:03:21,000
NARRATOR
Edward and his family move back to Boston
670
01:03:21,000 --> 01:03:24,300
where he accepts a teaching position at MIT.
671
01:03:24,300 --> 01:03:31,680
After giving birth to their second child, Aden, Anne return to research work in the late 1950s.
672
01:03:32,080 --> 01:03:35,880
Richard would follow in his father's footsteps and become a physicist.
673
01:03:36,720 --> 01:03:40,380
Aden becomes a doctor specializing in neurology.
674
01:03:41,060 --> 01:03:47,980
After a short battle with cancer Edward dies peacefully in his sleep at the age of 77.
675
01:03:47,980 --> 01:03:51,380
Anne passes away two years later.
676
01:03:52,000 --> 01:03:57,020
In 1996 after a failed experiment Richard suffers a stroke
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and slips into a coma where he remains to this day under the watchful eye of his brother.
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We were so close to making time travel a possibility.
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It would have changed the world, but will
we rediscover it?
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I think it's only a matter of time.
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And when we do there's going to be a lot of questions to answer.
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One of the great things about being a science fiction writer is the possibilities of "What if?"
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What if Edward Page had invented time travel?
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How would that effect us?
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We experience time as we perceive it, but if time could be altered
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and was being altered would we perceive that? Would we? That's the big question.
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Would we even notice?
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NARRATOR
But until such a time when man is able to leave the boundaries of time and space
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the history of time travel will remain within the realm of science fiction.
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For Science Fiction Television this has been The Theory of Time Travel.
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