This slide describes how HG Wells' novel The Time Machine became the most important story about time travel. I think this is important because, as the most vital time travel story, it created many of the time travel elements we know today. The questions of what would happen if we met ourselves in the past and the “butterfly effect” could only be answered through the use of a fictional story. However, these questions may one day become reality and it is best to think about them before the advent of time travel brings about the end of the world as we know it.