The moving finger writes.

The article focuses on the history of space-time physics. It states author H.G. Wells wrote a short story that the novel "The Time Machine" was based on in in 1889, a year after physicists Albert Michelson and Edward Morley tried to measure the Earth's velocity relative to the theoretical substance...

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Published in:	Economist Vol. 416; no. 8954; pp. 76 - 78
Format:	Article
Published:	Economist Newspaper Limited 9/5/2015
Subjects:	Time Machine, The (Short story) Wells, H. G. (Herbert George), 1866-1946 Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955 Eddington, Arthur Stanley, Sir, 1882-1944 Michelson, Albert A. (Albert Abraham), 1852-1931 Morley, Edward Williams, 1838-1923 History Spacetime
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