The Story of the Demise of the Space Bandits

Author: Lawrence
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Publish Date: 2004-05-01
Features: This science fiction collection includes three short science fiction stories by two classic British writers and four short science fiction stories by other writers.
Excerpt: A Journey to the Future World
My friend, the time traveler, was a scientific eccentric, full of bizarre ideas. Long before Einstein's theory of relativity was published, he believed in the existence of "four-dimensional space." He thought that an object in space, in addition to being represented by the three dimensions of "length, width, and height," also had a fourth dimension—the "dimension of time." He believed that time was just a type of space. For example, here is a set of photos of someone, including one taken when he was 8 years old, one when he was 15, one when he was 17, and another when he was 23. Although these photos differ from each other, especially the one from when he was 8 and the one from when he was 23, they are all fixed factors of the person's four-dimensional body. The changes in the appearance of the person in the photos clearly illustrate the existence of the fourth dimension of space—the "dimension of time."