1 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:07,000 Downloaded from YTS.MX 2 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:13,000 Official YIFY movies site: YTS.MX 3 00:00:12,920 --> 00:00:18,060 [Television static] 4 00:00:19,880 --> 00:00:24,780 ANNOUNCER You're watching, History Television. 5 00:00:25,580 --> 00:00:39,800 [Clock ticks] 6 00:00:51,640 --> 00:00:59,400 NARRATOR In 1895 writer H.G. Wells published his science fiction masterpiece "The Time Machine." 7 00:01:01,080 --> 00:01:07,720 This novel would be one in a long line of literature, motion pictures, and television shows 8 00:01:07,720 --> 00:01:14,380 depicting man breaking the laws of time and space to travel beyond his present existence. 9 00:01:14,980 --> 00:01:20,836 One of the great struggles, if not the greatest struggle, has been man versus time. 10 00:01:20,836 --> 00:01:22,960 I mean, we always want more. 11 00:01:23,980 --> 00:01:31,260 We are prisoners to time. Mankind has always been fascinated with the idea of escaping from it. 12 00:01:31,680 --> 00:01:38,247 To be able to go back in time and fix a mistake or change the outcome of a future event. 13 00:01:38,247 --> 00:01:40,560 It's a tantalizing prospect. 14 00:01:40,980 --> 00:01:45,640 Could it even be possible? Well what did Einstein think? 15 00:01:46,240 --> 00:01:49,100 NARRATOR Due to the extraordinary work of two men, 16 00:01:49,100 --> 00:01:51,440 Edward Page, his son Richard, 17 00:01:51,440 --> 00:01:56,400 and the personal tragedy that drove them, time travel became a reality. 18 00:01:57,520 --> 00:02:01,420 Anne told me that Edward worked for the government, 19 00:02:01,420 --> 00:02:03,220 but even she didn't know what he did. 20 00:02:04,120 --> 00:02:08,480 Time Travel? I always that that sounded like a bunch of bull----. 21 00:02:08,780 --> 00:02:12,400 I can only imagine what it must have been like... 22 00:02:12,400 --> 00:02:14,500 ...to have been there when he actually did it. 23 00:02:15,380 --> 00:02:18,280 We're no longer bound to the rules of time, 24 00:02:18,280 --> 00:02:20,380 but what of the rules of morality? 25 00:02:21,120 --> 00:02:22,840 It changed everything. 26 00:03:29,680 --> 00:03:33,920 NARRATOR Storytellers hold a special place in the history of mankind. 27 00:03:33,920 --> 00:03:36,907 From the fables of Aesop to the Brothers Grimm, 28 00:03:36,907 --> 00:03:41,960 we look to storytellers to give us truth about human nature and our place within the world. 29 00:03:42,820 --> 00:03:45,120 To discuss the genre of time travel, 30 00:03:45,120 --> 00:03:49,680 it's place within science fiction, and how it ultimately became a reality, 31 00:03:49,680 --> 00:03:53,140 we talked with noted author and screenwriter Kevin Ulrich. 32 00:03:53,140 --> 00:03:58,120 Ulrich is the creator of the popular time travel series "Nic of Time." 33 00:03:58,120 --> 00:04:01,840 We meet up with him at a book signing in Los Angeles, California. 34 00:04:02,660 --> 00:04:08,171 Time travel had already been a popular genre even before science fiction. 35 00:04:08,940 --> 00:04:12,900 You have fantasy stories where someone is magically transported to the past 36 00:04:12,900 --> 00:04:17,220 like Mark Twain's "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" 37 00:04:17,220 --> 00:04:21,300 or they wake up in the future like "Rip Van Winkle." 38 00:04:21,300 --> 00:04:28,760 Even Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" has elements of time travel with Christmas Past, Present, and Future. 39 00:04:30,660 --> 00:04:34,340 NARRATOR To discuss the history of science fiction becoming science fact 40 00:04:34,340 --> 00:04:38,880 we talked with Professor Edward Yarborough of Harvard University. 41 00:04:38,880 --> 00:04:41,853 Prof. Yarborough is a professor of American History 42 00:04:41,853 --> 00:04:46,350 and one of the world's foremost authorities on the history of time travel. 43 00:04:47,140 --> 00:04:52,820 Before time travel became a reality mankind was always intrigued with how it could possibly work 44 00:04:52,820 --> 00:04:55,600 and many ideas and theories were purposed. 45 00:04:56,180 --> 00:04:59,520 For many years I subscribed to the multiverse theory. 46 00:04:59,520 --> 00:05:02,829 Which is that there can be numerous timelines 47 00:05:02,829 --> 00:05:07,020 and parallel universes running concurrently with our own. 48 00:05:07,020 --> 00:05:08,960 For an example... 49 00:05:09,120 --> 00:05:13,340 ...if I go back in time and stop the Lincoln assassination 50 00:05:13,340 --> 00:05:18,800 I would immediately create a new timeline which branches off from the old one. 51 00:05:18,800 --> 00:05:23,000 It is within this timeline that Lincoln would live. 52 00:05:23,000 --> 00:05:24,860 If I were to travel into the future, 53 00:05:24,860 --> 00:05:31,540 it would be the future of that new alternate timeline not the one I originally came from. 54 00:05:32,140 --> 00:05:34,700 Another possibility was the fixed timeline theory. 55 00:05:34,700 --> 00:05:36,960 Now in the fixed timeline theory if you were 56 00:05:36,960 --> 00:05:41,090 to go back in time and accidentally kill someone you haven't altered the course of history, 57 00:05:41,090 --> 00:05:42,500 you were already a part of it. 58 00:05:42,500 --> 00:05:45,850 You were always meant to go back in time and accidentally kill that person. 59 00:05:45,850 --> 00:05:48,340 Your future was already a part of the past, and you couldn't change it. 60 00:05:52,640 --> 00:05:57,960 NARRATOR To discuss the hard science of time travel and the possibility of paradoxes 61 00:05:57,960 --> 00:06:02,900 with meet with Dr. Jack Fincher of Yale University. 62 00:06:03,940 --> 00:06:07,915 Dr. Fincher is an astrophysicist specializing in quantum mechanics 63 00:06:07,915 --> 00:06:13,080 and the author of two New York Times bestselling books on the subject. 64 00:06:16,500 --> 00:06:22,071 An interesting side effect to the fixed timeline theory is the infinite loop. 65 00:06:22,080 --> 00:06:27,680 Now for example, say we take my grandfather's pocket watch... 66 00:06:28,180 --> 00:06:31,920 ...lets say I go back in time and I lose the watch. 67 00:06:31,920 --> 00:06:37,860 Later on my grandfather finds the watch and many years later gives it to me. 68 00:06:37,870 --> 00:06:41,580 Now the question becomes, where did the watch originally come from? 69 00:06:41,580 --> 00:06:45,340 Had I not gone back in time and lost the watch 70 00:06:45,340 --> 00:06:48,760 my grandfather never would have found it in order to give it to me, 71 00:06:48,760 --> 00:06:52,440 my grandfather couldn't have given it to me if I hadn't lost it. 72 00:06:53,000 --> 00:06:56,740 So the pocket watch has now become stuck in an infinite loop. 73 00:07:00,480 --> 00:07:06,678 NARRATOR The final aspect of time travel we will explore is the moral implication of altering time. 74 00:07:06,678 --> 00:07:10,060 We meet with philosopher Dr. Adam Lindquist, 75 00:07:10,060 --> 00:07:15,300 international lecturer and a highly regarded voice in the world of ethics. 76 00:07:16,300 --> 00:07:19,639 Most people had a basic understanding of what time travel was, 77 00:07:19,640 --> 00:07:24,220 or what it could be, from movies, TV shows, and books. 78 00:07:24,220 --> 00:07:28,300 They also realized the moral can of worms it would open. 79 00:07:28,300 --> 00:07:32,420 But we were all unprepared for when it actually happened. 80 00:07:43,900 --> 00:07:50,000 NARRATOR August 2, 1939, Physicists Leo Szilard and Albert Einstein, 81 00:07:50,000 --> 00:07:53,680 concerned by Nazi Germany's research into nuclear weapons, 82 00:07:53,680 --> 00:07:58,160 send a letter to American President, Franklin D. Roosevelt. 83 00:07:58,580 --> 00:08:04,420 The "Einstein-Szilard Letter" warned President Roosevelt about the Nazi nuclear program 84 00:08:04,420 --> 00:08:08,840 and urged him to create our own program to counter the threat from Germany. 85 00:08:09,760 --> 00:08:13,860 NARRATOR One month latter Nazi Germany invades Poland 86 00:08:13,860 --> 00:08:17,700 and plunges Europe into war. 87 00:08:21,680 --> 00:08:25,821 But it isn't until early 1942, when America has entered the war, 88 00:08:25,821 --> 00:08:29,110 that research into our own program begins in earnest. 89 00:08:29,580 --> 00:08:35,960 NARRATOR However by this time Adolph Hitler has already turned his attention to something beyond nuclear fusion. 90 00:08:35,960 --> 00:08:41,980 In July of 1942 Einstein writes another letter to President Roosevelt. 91 00:08:42,360 --> 00:08:45,980 Einstein was made aware, by sources back in Germany, 92 00:08:45,980 --> 00:08:50,980 that the Nazis were experimenting in the manipulation of time and space. 93 00:08:50,980 --> 00:08:56,060 Einstein was very concerned about the Nazis actually becoming successful in doing this. 94 00:08:56,420 --> 00:08:59,800 He considered it and even bigger threat then the Atomic bomb. 95 00:09:01,180 --> 00:09:05,460 NARRATOR After receiving Einstein's letter President Roosevelt meets with him in secret. 96 00:09:06,200 --> 00:09:09,060 Soon after the president establishes a top secret 97 00:09:09,060 --> 00:09:12,340 research initiative code named "The Indiana Project". 98 00:09:12,340 --> 00:09:16,080 The project's main objective: To produce a machine 99 00:09:16,080 --> 00:09:20,080 capable of traveling through and altering time. 100 00:09:21,240 --> 00:09:27,180 The Indiana Project begins in secret in a small facility just outside Portland, Indiana. 101 00:09:28,400 --> 00:09:31,940 Initially the program consists of a small group of scientists 102 00:09:31,940 --> 00:09:35,860 but it soon expands to included several hundred workers. 103 00:09:36,500 --> 00:09:40,540 Only a select few know about the project's true objective. 104 00:09:41,160 --> 00:09:43,319 Washington was spending millions of dollars 105 00:09:43,320 --> 00:09:46,680 to fund the Indiana Project over the course of the war 106 00:09:46,680 --> 00:09:51,160 and the Pentagon was not happy with the lack of, tangible, results. 107 00:09:51,880 --> 00:10:00,480 NARRATOR By 1944 the tide had turned in Europe and an Allied victory over Nazi Germany was inevitable. 108 00:10:12,620 --> 00:10:15,300 To offer insight into the Indiana Project's importance 109 00:10:15,300 --> 00:10:19,940 and place within the Pentagon we talked with General Douglas Sanborn. 110 00:10:21,020 --> 00:10:23,660 When Germany fell and the Nazi threat was subdued 111 00:10:23,660 --> 00:10:27,920 the Pentagon couldn't decide what to do with the Indiana Project. 112 00:10:27,920 --> 00:10:33,360 The project had it's supporters but some saw no reason why they should continue funding it. 113 00:10:33,360 --> 00:10:38,340 They felt the money could be better spent in preparation for the invasion of Japan. 114 00:10:40,060 --> 00:10:44,220 NARRATOR On August 6, 1945 the United States drops 115 00:10:44,220 --> 00:10:47,800 an atomic bomb upon the Japanese city of Hiroshima. 116 00:10:47,800 --> 00:10:55,960 [Atomic bomb blast] 117 00:10:55,960 --> 00:11:00,700 Steadfast the Japanese government refuses to surrender. 118 00:11:00,700 --> 00:11:05,160 Three days later a second bomb is dropped over Nagasaki. 119 00:11:05,160 --> 00:11:12,180 On August 14th Japan surrenders and the second world war ends. 120 00:11:15,220 --> 00:11:20,291 With the war now over many government projects are either shut down or severely cut, 121 00:11:20,291 --> 00:11:25,360 but the Indiana Project manages to survive due to it's supporters in the Pentagon. 122 00:11:25,360 --> 00:11:29,600 They argued that the research could be useful down the line. 123 00:11:30,200 --> 00:11:34,900 NARRATOR The Indiana Project's budget is cut and many of the scientist leave for other employment. 124 00:11:35,840 --> 00:11:42,860 Among the researchers who remains with the project is a young physicist named Edward Page. 125 00:11:45,420 --> 00:11:51,780 Edward Charles Page was born in Boston, Massachusetts, on March 3rd 1916. 126 00:11:51,780 --> 00:11:56,700 He grew up in an upper middle class family the son of a doctor and socialite mother. 127 00:11:56,700 --> 00:12:01,580 He developed a love for reading, especially the science fiction stories of Jules Vern, 128 00:12:01,580 --> 00:12:05,720 H.G. Wells, and the adventures of Robert Louis Stevenson. 129 00:12:05,720 --> 00:12:10,540 His love of science fiction would lead to an interest in becoming a scientist himself. 130 00:12:10,540 --> 00:12:14,860 After graduating high school Edward enrolled at MIT. 131 00:12:16,560 --> 00:12:21,139 He graduated from MIT in the Spring of 1942, 132 00:12:21,140 --> 00:12:26,540 he was immediately offered a job from the government to work at the Indiana Project. 133 00:12:26,760 --> 00:12:32,120 In addition to government resources and equipment, he was offered a full salary 134 00:12:32,120 --> 00:12:35,660 and a house for both himself and his wife Anne. 135 00:12:36,980 --> 00:12:43,020 NARRATOR Anne Havard was born in Paterson, New Jersey on May 25th, 1921. 136 00:12:43,020 --> 00:12:48,360 A precocious child Anne had a love of nature and science at an early age. 137 00:12:49,040 --> 00:12:52,833 Anne moved with her parents to Boston when she was around six years old. 138 00:12:52,833 --> 00:12:56,380 She attended Brighton High School, graduated valedictorian 139 00:12:56,380 --> 00:13:00,100 and then was accepted to MIT in the fall of 1939. 140 00:13:01,300 --> 00:13:05,520 NARRATOR Anne was working as a research assistant at MIT when she met Edward. 141 00:13:05,520 --> 00:13:11,240 Spending long hours in the lab together their relationship soon turned to romance. 142 00:13:11,240 --> 00:13:17,040 Edward and Anne would marry in June of 1941. 143 00:13:26,420 --> 00:13:32,680 When Edward was offered the government job Anne was pregnant and not in the best of health. 144 00:13:32,680 --> 00:13:36,410 She had wanted to stay on the East coast to be near her parents, 145 00:13:36,410 --> 00:13:41,160 but being the devoted wife she went with Edward to Indiana. 146 00:13:41,160 --> 00:13:45,280 She hoped the war would end quickly so they could come home. 147 00:13:46,180 --> 00:13:51,040 NARRATOR Soon after arriving in Portland, Anne gave birth to their son, Richard. 148 00:13:51,040 --> 00:13:57,340 Due to complications the birth had been quite difficult and Anne remained bedridden for several weeks. 149 00:13:57,820 --> 00:14:01,800 Edward wasn't particularly good with the baby 150 00:14:01,800 --> 00:14:06,610 and after a few days Anne called me to come stay with them until she was well. 151 00:14:07,840 --> 00:14:14,140 NARRATOR Anne's health improved and she grew fond of motherhood and raising young Richard. 152 00:14:18,300 --> 00:14:21,087 When the war was over Anne hoped they would move back to Boston. 153 00:14:21,087 --> 00:14:25,926 But in early 1946 Edward accepted the position of head researcher for the Indiana Project. 154 00:14:25,926 --> 00:14:30,500 He took it very seriously and devoted himself completely to it, 155 00:14:30,500 --> 00:14:34,280 and as a result his relationship with Anne would begin to strain. 156 00:14:34,280 --> 00:14:37,320 Edward was spending more and more time in the lab. 157 00:14:37,320 --> 00:14:41,480 Due to the limited funds he ran a very tight ship 158 00:14:41,480 --> 00:14:44,800 and Edward ended up doing most of the lab work himself. 159 00:14:45,340 --> 00:14:51,114 Anne wrote me a letter in the fall of forty-eight about how lonely she felt. 160 00:14:51,114 --> 00:14:59,036 Edward was spending more time in the lab and Richard had started elementary school. 161 00:14:59,036 --> 00:15:05,380 She confided in me that she hoped to have another baby. 162 00:15:06,540 --> 00:15:09,860 NARRATOR Unfortunately another child was not in her future. 163 00:15:10,200 --> 00:15:15,860 In the summer of 1949 Anne had become sick and was bedridden once more. 164 00:15:17,260 --> 00:15:20,860 At first Anne just thought she had the flu and so she stayed in bed, 165 00:15:20,860 --> 00:15:25,240 but Edward was never really good at taking care of anyone especially when they were sick 166 00:15:25,240 --> 00:15:27,780 so Anne sent for her friend Dorothy to come out and help. 167 00:15:28,120 --> 00:15:30,140 I came as soon as I heard. 168 00:15:30,140 --> 00:15:36,240 When I got there she was already frail and was having difficulty breathing. 169 00:15:36,240 --> 00:15:42,920 I just had a feeling she wasn't going to make it though the night. 170 00:15:44,600 --> 00:15:48,430 I tried to call Edward at his office but there was no response. 171 00:15:48,430 --> 00:15:52,080 I decided to call an ambulance to take her to the hospital. 172 00:15:53,440 --> 00:15:59,160 Apparently Edward had taken the phone off the hook so that he wouldn't be disturbed. 173 00:15:59,160 --> 00:16:05,120 So Dorothy sent her husband Mike to the Indiana Project to get Edward 174 00:16:05,120 --> 00:16:06,920 and bring him to the hospital. 175 00:16:06,920 --> 00:16:12,200 By the time Mike drives him to the hospital Anne had already died. 176 00:16:13,200 --> 00:16:15,580 Edward was devastated. 177 00:16:16,480 --> 00:16:21,360 It wasn't until after she died that we found out she was suffering from polio. 178 00:16:24,440 --> 00:16:30,780 NARRATOR Dr. Helen Cagle of John Hopkins University is a specialist in the treatment of infectious diseases. 179 00:16:30,780 --> 00:16:37,680 We met with her to talk about the polio epidemic in America during the 1940s and 50s. 180 00:16:38,820 --> 00:16:44,028 In the summer of 1949 there was a serious polio epidemic that swept through Indiana. 181 00:16:44,028 --> 00:16:50,152 All public activities and gatherings were banned to prevent the spread of the disease. 182 00:16:50,160 --> 00:16:55,460 We think of polio as something affecting young children, and infants, 183 00:16:55,460 --> 00:16:58,440 but adults could contract the disease as well. 184 00:16:58,440 --> 00:17:01,320 Unfortunately Anne was one of the unlucky ones who did. 185 00:17:01,320 --> 00:17:07,700 Edward had no idea how sick she really was. 186 00:17:07,700 --> 00:17:11,920 I told him he wasn't home enough to notice. 187 00:17:11,920 --> 00:17:17,040 I thought Anne's death would change him but it only made him worse. 188 00:17:17,940 --> 00:17:22,740 NARRATOR Haunted by the death of his wife Edward completely withdrew from everyday life 189 00:17:22,740 --> 00:17:25,180 and spent his time in the lab. 190 00:17:27,420 --> 00:17:31,820 Edward blamed himself for his wife's death. 191 00:17:31,820 --> 00:17:37,180 I mean here he was a man of science and he couldn't even save his own wife. 192 00:17:37,960 --> 00:17:43,893 If he could invent a time machine he could go back and save Anne. 193 00:17:43,900 --> 00:17:48,720 He thought he could cheat death through science. 194 00:17:49,700 --> 00:17:52,000 All he needed was time. 195 00:17:54,320 --> 00:17:57,800 NARRATOR Driven by remorse and regret Edward would 196 00:17:57,800 --> 00:18:05,480 spend the next twenty years of his life trying to find a way to travel through time. 197 00:18:21,380 --> 00:18:40,740 [Rock and Roll, electric guitar] 198 00:18:41,140 --> 00:18:46,380 By the 1960s the Indiana Project was all but forgotten, due to the space race. 199 00:18:46,380 --> 00:18:48,700 I mean, here we have NASA spending billions, 200 00:18:48,700 --> 00:18:53,680 to beat the Russians to the moon, but over here in Indiana still Edward working in his little lab. 201 00:18:54,120 --> 00:19:01,400 NARRATOR In the Fall of 1960 Edward's son Richard follows in his father's footsteps when he's accepted to MIT. 202 00:19:01,840 --> 00:19:08,680 Richard and his father had an unusual relationship since Anne's death. 203 00:19:08,680 --> 00:19:15,400 Richard admired Edward,as a scientist, and respected him as his father, but they were never truly close. 204 00:19:15,400 --> 00:19:18,480 Not as close as Richard wanted them to be. 205 00:19:19,060 --> 00:19:23,480 Deep down I think becoming a physicist 206 00:19:23,480 --> 00:19:30,960 was a way that Richard thought that he could really connect with his father. 207 00:19:30,960 --> 00:19:33,640 He had to get inside his world. 208 00:19:35,540 --> 00:19:42,980 NARRATOR Richard graduates from MIT in 1968 and accepts a research position at the University of Indiana. 209 00:19:43,940 --> 00:19:49,320 When the space race was going on NASA overshadowed everything, including the Indiana Project. 210 00:19:49,320 --> 00:19:52,140 It managed to survived just simply by being under the radar. 211 00:19:52,520 --> 00:19:54,680 But by the early 70s, with the space race over 212 00:19:54,680 --> 00:19:59,780 and Vietnam bleeding the Pentagon dry, cuts had to be made. 213 00:19:59,780 --> 00:20:03,780 That's when the Indiana Project ending up on the chopping block. 214 00:20:04,720 --> 00:20:10,060 NARRATOR Despite numerous letters from Edward asking them to reconsider the idea 215 00:20:10,060 --> 00:20:16,040 the Pentagon shuts down the Indiana Project in the Fall of 1975. 216 00:20:17,380 --> 00:20:27,380 To them they saw Edward as a relic of the past, a crackpot, and they thought his research was just a joke. 217 00:20:28,240 --> 00:20:34,660 Edward was devastated. His decades of research, his work, all gone. 218 00:20:34,666 --> 00:20:38,450 It was like losing his wife all over again. 219 00:20:38,450 --> 00:20:40,210 He couldn't take it. 220 00:20:41,340 --> 00:20:49,940 NARRATOR On November 5th, 1975 Edward Page suffers a major heart attack and dies the following day. 221 00:20:49,940 --> 00:20:53,560 He was 59 years old. 222 00:20:54,600 --> 00:20:59,400 Richard takes the death of Edward very hard. 223 00:20:59,400 --> 00:21:04,040 He waited his whole life, he worked his whole life, 224 00:21:04,040 --> 00:21:12,080 to have an opportunity to spend some meaningful time with him and it doesn't happen. 225 00:21:24,880 --> 00:21:30,280 NARRATOR Richard returns to Portland after Edward's death to sell his parent's home. 226 00:21:30,280 --> 00:21:34,960 While cleaning out his parent's house Richard makes an extraordinary discovery. 227 00:21:35,280 --> 00:21:37,860 So Richard is boxing up his father's personal belongings 228 00:21:37,860 --> 00:21:40,980 when he finds a loose floorboard under the bed. 229 00:21:44,240 --> 00:21:49,440 Inside is his father's personal journal detailing all of his research into time travel. 230 00:21:50,000 --> 00:21:53,300 Richard is blown away by his father's journal. 231 00:21:53,300 --> 00:21:56,720 He knew that Edward had been working for the government and that his job was classified, 232 00:21:56,720 --> 00:22:01,940 but he had no idea that this, was what he was devoting his whole life toward. 233 00:22:03,060 --> 00:22:06,800 In the journal Richard finds a picture of his mother. 234 00:22:12,680 --> 00:22:19,540 Written on the back, in his father handwriting, is the message "In time, I will save you." 235 00:22:20,920 --> 00:22:24,580 That night Richard just pours over his father's journal 236 00:22:24,580 --> 00:22:30,000 and he realizes his father was very close to making time travel a possibility. 237 00:22:30,900 --> 00:22:35,060 This research was his father's legacy 238 00:22:35,060 --> 00:22:38,440 and Richard took it upon himself to prove his father right. 239 00:22:39,600 --> 00:22:45,658 NARRATOR Taking up the challenge of his father's work would prove to be more difficult then Richard realized. 240 00:22:45,660 --> 00:22:50,600 He would spend the next decade trying to achieve his father's goal. 241 00:22:51,080 --> 00:22:55,160 The idea of time travel is very seductive. 242 00:22:55,160 --> 00:23:02,040 Richard started out to prove his father's theories correct but it soon became a personal obsession. 243 00:23:02,420 --> 00:23:09,900 Like his father Richard withdrew from society to completely focus on his work. 244 00:23:09,900 --> 00:23:13,420 He rarely, if ever, seen outside the lab. 245 00:23:13,420 --> 00:23:19,540 His students became very frustrated he never showed up to class to lecture he just showed up on test days. 246 00:23:20,020 --> 00:23:26,640 Had Richard not continued his father's journal this important period in his life, and history itself, 247 00:23:26,640 --> 00:23:28,500 would be a lost to us. 248 00:23:30,540 --> 00:23:36,620 November 6th, 1985. I have completed my father's legacy. 249 00:23:36,620 --> 00:23:40,780 Forty years of combined research has led me to construct a machine to move man 250 00:23:40,780 --> 00:23:44,240 backwards and forward through time. 251 00:23:44,240 --> 00:23:48,040 Today I became the first person to do so. 252 00:23:48,720 --> 00:23:52,080 We know what Richard created and we know that it worked. 253 00:23:52,080 --> 00:23:57,000 But what we don't know, even to this day, is how he did it. 254 00:23:57,000 --> 00:23:59,800 He never reveals the secrets in his journal. 255 00:24:00,660 --> 00:24:04,080 I can only imagine what it must have been like... 256 00:24:04,080 --> 00:24:06,740 ...to have been there when he actually did it. 257 00:24:11,580 --> 00:24:15,560 The only thing we do know about that night comes from the video camera that Richard set up. 258 00:24:15,560 --> 00:24:17,940 First there's the time machine itself. 259 00:24:17,940 --> 00:24:22,660 It's surprisingly small, it looks like two VCRs stacked on top of each other with a controller. 260 00:24:23,400 --> 00:24:26,640 NARRATOR Inspired by H.G. Wells' "The Time Machine" 261 00:24:26,640 --> 00:24:31,120 Richard wanted something round that could be turned either direction to control the device. 262 00:24:31,860 --> 00:24:35,440 His ultimate choice was quite appropriate for the 1980s. 263 00:24:36,980 --> 00:24:41,000 Richard Page built a time machine out of an Atari! 264 00:24:42,900 --> 00:24:45,240 NARRATOR Using the control knob of an Atari gaming 265 00:24:45,240 --> 00:24:48,478 system Richard could move himself through time. 266 00:24:48,478 --> 00:24:53,059 Turning the controller to the right sends you into the future. 267 00:24:53,059 --> 00:24:57,480 Turning the knob to the left sends you into the past. 268 00:24:58,480 --> 00:25:04,280 The first time Richard uses the device he decides to make only a very small jump. 269 00:25:10,660 --> 00:25:14,520 He turns the knob and is sent one minute into the future. 270 00:25:17,320 --> 00:25:21,040 However Richard reappears to us only a second latter. 271 00:25:23,020 --> 00:25:25,480 This Richard is from the future. 272 00:25:25,820 --> 00:25:33,340 Now this "Future Richard" waits exactly one minute for the arrival of "Past Richard." 273 00:25:34,860 --> 00:25:41,460 This "Future Richard" then tells "Past Richard" to travel back in time one minute. 274 00:25:54,600 --> 00:25:59,440 "Past Richard" travels back in time to become "Future Richard." 275 00:26:00,000 --> 00:26:01,700 Wrap your head around that. 276 00:26:02,020 --> 00:26:08,800 Richard in his excitement of time traveling and meeting himself, decides to go back even further. 277 00:26:12,540 --> 00:26:17,479 Without thinking it through Richard decides to go back in time one day. 278 00:26:17,479 --> 00:26:21,300 He turns the knob to the left, vanishes. 279 00:26:26,720 --> 00:26:32,112 When he goes back in time one day Richard fails to take into account 280 00:26:32,112 --> 00:26:38,841 that there will not be a time machine waiting for him because he has yet to complete it. 281 00:26:38,841 --> 00:26:46,920 So he ends up spending the night in a broom closet waiting for his past self to finish the machine. 282 00:26:49,360 --> 00:26:52,880 Richard quickly learned the dangers of using such a device. 283 00:26:53,100 --> 00:26:58,680 He realized that the machine must be portable, 284 00:26:58,680 --> 00:27:01,820 otherwise you could stuck in the past with no way to come back. 285 00:27:02,840 --> 00:27:07,300 To call Richard's achievement ground breaking would be an understatement. 286 00:27:07,300 --> 00:27:11,100 We are no longer bound to the rules of time. 287 00:27:11,100 --> 00:27:13,740 But what of the rules of morality? 288 00:27:13,740 --> 00:27:19,480 A machine that can alter history is power that could be very dangerous in the wrong hands. 289 00:27:20,080 --> 00:27:27,440 NARRATOR Aware of the potential danger in such a device Richard vows not to go back in time and change things. 290 00:27:28,020 --> 00:27:30,160 But he just can't help himself. 291 00:27:31,180 --> 00:27:36,420 Pandora's Box has just been opened. 292 00:27:59,280 --> 00:28:05,343 There was one thing that Richard always wanted, and that was to see his mother again. 293 00:28:05,343 --> 00:28:09,400 He has a machine that can do that 294 00:28:09,400 --> 00:28:13,136 and not only can he see her again, he doesn't have to lose her at all. 295 00:28:13,136 --> 00:28:15,180 At the time that she died the Polio vaccine was still several years away, 296 00:28:15,180 --> 00:28:22,440 but in the 1980s that's no longer an issue. 297 00:28:24,120 --> 00:28:27,780 Richard thinks long and hard about what he plans to do. 298 00:28:27,780 --> 00:28:33,360 He weighs the options, the pros, the cons, but in the end he decides to do it. 299 00:28:34,660 --> 00:28:39,080 NARRATOR Richard works for several months to make a portable version of the time machine. 300 00:28:39,080 --> 00:28:42,400 Unable to make it any smaller 301 00:28:42,400 --> 00:28:46,860 Richard determines that the machine would be something you wear like a backpack. 302 00:28:50,120 --> 00:28:55,880 Now the machine only moves you through time, not space. 303 00:28:55,880 --> 00:29:02,320 You can't start off in New York and go back in time to ancient Rome. 304 00:29:02,320 --> 00:29:07,700 In order to do that you would have to physically be in Italy. 305 00:29:08,720 --> 00:29:11,020 Anne was born and raised in Paterson, New Jersey 306 00:29:11,020 --> 00:29:14,360 before her family moved to Boston so Richard would need to go there first. 307 00:29:14,360 --> 00:29:18,340 So he makes some calls and tracks down the house she grew up in. 308 00:29:18,860 --> 00:29:22,160 NARRATOR Acquiring a series of polio and booster shoots. 309 00:29:22,160 --> 00:29:27,480 Richard will travel back to the 1920s and inoculate his newborn mother. 310 00:29:28,220 --> 00:29:30,460 [Automobile engine] 311 00:29:31,180 --> 00:29:38,860 December 13th 1985. I am currently sitting in a motel near my Mother's childhood home. 312 00:29:38,860 --> 00:29:43,080 Polio vaccination and booster shots lay on the table next to me. 313 00:29:43,080 --> 00:29:49,360 In a few minutes I will use them to cure my mother's illness and save her from death. 314 00:29:49,360 --> 00:29:55,740 I write this with the knowledge that my actions today may yield unintended ramifications. 315 00:29:55,740 --> 00:29:58,640 I only pray that it works. 316 00:30:00,080 --> 00:30:04,020 It works. The time machine works. 317 00:30:04,380 --> 00:30:09,920 December 5th 1987 will go down in history as one of the most important dates for mankind. 318 00:30:09,920 --> 00:30:12,980 Richard and Aden have finally fulfilled their father's work. 319 00:30:12,980 --> 00:30:17,530 It wasn't just a triumph for mankind but a personal triumph as well. 320 00:30:17,900 --> 00:30:21,060 NARRATOR However the triumph was to be short lived. 321 00:30:21,060 --> 00:30:25,920 Immediately after their first successful test Richard passes out. 322 00:30:25,920 --> 00:30:29,820 Aden rushes his brother to his hospital and begins treating him. 323 00:30:30,820 --> 00:30:36,520 Even though he was a well respected doctor Aden is stumped by his brother's sudden illness. 324 00:30:36,520 --> 00:30:39,860 He was concerned it might be a side effect of the machine. 325 00:30:40,380 --> 00:30:44,420 Now you have to remember that Aden has only been working with the device for the past few months. 326 00:30:44,420 --> 00:30:47,500 Richard had been working on it for thirteen years. 327 00:30:47,500 --> 00:30:52,140 Aden was worried that there might be some correlation with long time exposure to the device. 328 00:30:53,300 --> 00:30:58,560 Richard was in a comatose state for three days. Aden was baffled. 329 00:30:59,200 --> 00:31:12,200 [Hospital heart monitor beeps] 330 00:31:12,660 --> 00:31:19,540 On the third day Richard literally jumps out of bed and happily embraces his brother. 331 00:31:19,540 --> 00:31:26,620 Aden was taken aback. He said Richard hugged him as if they haven't seen each other in years. 332 00:31:27,600 --> 00:31:33,880 NARRATOR Aden runs some test but finds nothing medically wrong with his brother and releases him that evening. 333 00:31:33,880 --> 00:31:39,940 Returning to the lab Richard tells his brother about a dream he had while he was in the hospital. 334 00:31:40,220 --> 00:31:45,300 [Birds sing, wind blows through the tress] 335 00:31:45,780 --> 00:31:51,740 It's a dream about their mother and what their life would have been like had she not died giving birth to Aden. 336 00:31:57,380 --> 00:32:00,040 It's the one thing they both have always wanted. 337 00:32:00,040 --> 00:32:02,740 Aden more so because he never knew her. 338 00:32:02,740 --> 00:32:05,880 It's the reason why he became a doctor. 339 00:32:05,880 --> 00:32:12,600 Richard tells him, if a doctor had been there when their mother went into labor she wouldn't have died. 340 00:32:13,000 --> 00:32:18,120 Aden begins to figure out where Richard is going with this train of thought. 341 00:32:18,500 --> 00:32:20,720 And he wants nothing to do with it. 342 00:32:20,720 --> 00:32:25,660 He had a hard enough time with the fact that his brother had actually built a working time machine. 343 00:32:25,660 --> 00:32:33,100 But to go back in time and deliver yourself? It was just too much. 344 00:32:33,640 --> 00:32:37,320 It's actually not that crazy if you really think about it. 345 00:32:37,920 --> 00:32:46,400 Richard and Aden debate throughout the whole night until Aden reappears. The machine works! 346 00:32:46,400 --> 00:32:50,560 Aden has now become the first person to travel through time. 347 00:32:53,040 --> 00:32:56,640 Richard asks Aden what it felt like to travel through time 348 00:32:56,640 --> 00:33:01,300 but before he can say anything Aden inexplicably passes out. 349 00:33:02,340 --> 00:33:08,520 NARRATOR Richard takes Aden to the hospital where he spends the next three days in a coma. 350 00:33:11,680 --> 00:33:15,760 When Aden wakes up from his coma he is by all accounts perfectly healthy. 351 00:33:15,760 --> 00:33:18,860 The doctors can't find anything wrong with him. 352 00:33:18,860 --> 00:33:25,500 Medically speaking the cause of Aden's coma remains unknown. There's just very little evidence to go on. 353 00:33:25,500 --> 00:33:29,460 The only rational explanation is the time machine. 354 00:33:30,340 --> 00:33:35,500 Curiously Richard is not at his brother's bedside during those three days. 355 00:33:35,500 --> 00:33:41,600 He only returns on the day that Aden wakes up from the coma. 356 00:33:41,600 --> 00:33:46,020 It's almost as if he knew what was going to happen. 357 00:33:46,020 --> 00:33:49,460 Considering he built a time machine, maybe he did. 358 00:33:50,460 --> 00:33:58,780 January 29th, 1990. I arrived at the hospital this morning anticipating the Aden would soon recover. 359 00:33:58,780 --> 00:34:04,180 A few minutes after I entered his room Aden wakes from his coma. 360 00:34:04,180 --> 00:34:08,840 He told he understood what had happened to him and what we needed to do. 361 00:34:11,000 --> 00:34:14,260 Those fourteen years that Richard and Aden 362 00:34:14,260 --> 00:34:20,700 spent while working together on the time machine were leading up to an ultimate goal. 363 00:34:21,420 --> 00:34:27,780 When Anne died they were left with a cold and distant father. 364 00:34:27,780 --> 00:34:34,340 They thought if only they could go back in time and change one thing, just one, 365 00:34:34,340 --> 00:34:36,980 everything else would work itself out. 366 00:34:38,020 --> 00:34:46,540 Using the time machine they would go back in time to 1953 and stop the car accident that killed their mother. 367 00:34:49,140 --> 00:34:51,880 They we're unprepared for what was about to happen. 368 00:34:53,780 --> 00:34:57,480 The time machine was on and it was stable. 369 00:34:58,320 --> 00:35:01,860 NARRATOR Sixteen years after their father's death his sons had completed his life work 370 00:35:01,860 --> 00:35:07,240 and built the world's first time machine. 371 00:35:07,820 --> 00:35:13,880 It is one of the great moments, if not the greatest moment in the history of science. 372 00:35:13,880 --> 00:35:17,660 The word history takes on a whole new meaning now. 373 00:35:17,660 --> 00:35:23,640 History is a living science because of what they did. 374 00:35:24,280 --> 00:35:30,820 NARRATOR Despite their accomplishments personal tragedy casts a long shadow over their work. 375 00:35:31,880 --> 00:35:38,740 Their mother's suicide in 1955 haunted them for the rest of their lives, 376 00:35:38,740 --> 00:35:45,840 and I think it's what really drove them, just like their father, to try and create the time machine. 377 00:35:46,440 --> 00:35:56,420 Edward was so obsessed with the machine that he completely overlooked the warning signs with Anne. 378 00:35:56,420 --> 00:36:00,820 All her life she had been plagued by terrible nightmares. 379 00:36:01,160 --> 00:36:07,120 She had this reoccurring nightmare where she was being repeatedly stabbed with needles. 380 00:36:07,940 --> 00:36:09,800 She never understood why. 381 00:36:10,520 --> 00:36:19,740 Even though Anne was a lovely person and a wonderful mother she had a dark side that was tormenting her. 382 00:36:21,040 --> 00:36:27,500 After narrowly surviving a car wreck in 53 Anne became a different person. 383 00:36:40,000 --> 00:36:47,100 She confided in me that she never understand why she was still here. 384 00:36:47,100 --> 00:36:51,080 She thought she should have died in the accident. 385 00:36:51,820 --> 00:36:57,080 Edward quite sadly is oblivious to his wife's pain and suffering. 386 00:36:57,080 --> 00:37:03,080 He is so obsessed with creating the time machine that he is squandering the time he has. 387 00:37:03,080 --> 00:37:08,560 In Edward's mind once he has the machine built he'll have all the time in the world. 388 00:37:13,740 --> 00:37:17,000 NARRATOR Unfortunately for Edward time ran out. 389 00:37:17,000 --> 00:37:26,540 On February 29, 1956 after sending Richard and Aden to school Anne commits suicide. 390 00:37:26,540 --> 00:37:29,280 She was 35 years old. 391 00:37:29,720 --> 00:37:36,220 She left a note saying it was the only way to cure her illness. 392 00:37:37,720 --> 00:37:44,260 Richard and Aden come home from school and find their mother dead. 393 00:37:44,980 --> 00:37:50,640 Richard was fourteen and Aden was only five. 394 00:37:52,500 --> 00:37:57,382 I can't imagine what that does to you, psychologically 395 00:37:57,382 --> 00:38:03,860 and I have no doubt that it was on their minds as they were finishing the machine. 396 00:38:04,780 --> 00:38:09,720 The temptation was certainly there for them to go back and to try and stop it 397 00:38:09,720 --> 00:38:14,900 but Richard realize that the best way to save their mother was through their father. 398 00:38:16,740 --> 00:38:23,900 March 6th 1994. After much debate Aden and myself have concluded that the reason 399 00:38:23,900 --> 00:38:28,140 our mother committed suicide was the that our father was never there for her. 400 00:38:28,140 --> 00:38:34,100 His obsession with the machine caused her to feel alienated and alone. 401 00:38:34,100 --> 00:38:40,100 Had my father been able to complete his research in her lifetime things may have turned out differently. 402 00:38:42,080 --> 00:38:46,080 We can only speculate what might have happened had they actually tried to go back. 403 00:38:56,040 --> 00:39:01,180 NARRATOR July 1944. Racing against time the Indiana Project 404 00:39:01,180 --> 00:39:07,280 works around the clock trying to find the break through they desperately need. 405 00:39:09,480 --> 00:39:13,620 The Manhattan Project was making great strides with the atomic bomb 406 00:39:13,620 --> 00:39:20,100 but the Indiana Project was falling way behind, until Edward Page comes along. 407 00:39:20,740 --> 00:39:26,400 NARRATOR Edward Page, a young researcher who had been working in the Indiana Project for several years, 408 00:39:26,400 --> 00:39:33,280 stuns his colleagues when he not only creates a series of equations that would produce time travel 409 00:39:33,280 --> 00:39:37,160 he builds a functioning prototype as well. 410 00:39:57,380 --> 00:40:00,080 Edward's research was years ahead of it's time. 411 00:40:00,080 --> 00:40:04,360 We're still not sure how he was able to reach the conclusions that he did. 412 00:40:04,360 --> 00:40:08,120 People would ask him and he just would say "It came to me." 413 00:40:11,240 --> 00:40:17,980 As far as the military was concerned we now possessed the power to rewrite history as we saw fit. 414 00:40:17,980 --> 00:40:24,840 They wanted to immediately go back in time and assassinate Hitler. End the war before it even starts. 415 00:40:25,100 --> 00:40:29,280 NARRATOR Now in control of a power far greater then the atomic bomb 416 00:40:29,280 --> 00:40:36,480 the United States prepares to alter history and avoid the horrors of World War II. 417 00:40:48,480 --> 00:40:55,360 However President Roosevelt has second thoughts and he orders the Indiana Project to stand down. 418 00:40:55,360 --> 00:41:01,980 He felt that altering time was too risky and could have unintended ramifications. 419 00:41:02,560 --> 00:41:05,700 Roosevelt was right that we shouldn't be playing God. 420 00:41:05,700 --> 00:41:10,040 Our responsibility was to see that time travel doesn't fall into the wrong hands. 421 00:41:11,880 --> 00:41:14,680 NARRATOR However it was already too late. 422 00:41:14,680 --> 00:41:21,560 On January 17th, 1945 Soviet agents, who had infiltrated the Indiana Project, 423 00:41:21,560 --> 00:41:25,700 steal Edward's prototype along with all of his research. 424 00:41:25,700 --> 00:41:29,820 They plant a bomb that destroys several buildings at the facility. 425 00:41:29,820 --> 00:41:34,780 The spies manage to make their way back to Moscow with the time machine. 426 00:41:35,200 --> 00:41:38,080 [File cabinet closes, bomb blast] 427 00:41:38,780 --> 00:41:45,940 If you thought the idea of Hitler with an atomic bomb was a bad idea, 428 00:41:45,940 --> 00:41:49,920 then Stalin with a time machine was terrifying. 429 00:41:50,240 --> 00:41:53,059 The Indiana Project was in shambles. 430 00:41:53,060 --> 00:41:57,560 They say not to put all your eggs in one basket, well the Indiana Project did. 431 00:41:57,560 --> 00:41:59,840 The Soviets now had the golden goose. 432 00:42:00,580 --> 00:42:07,820 Surviving the explosion with minor injuries Edward was tasked with rebuilding the prototype. 433 00:42:07,820 --> 00:42:14,260 Unfortunately most of his research and notes were either stolen or destroyed 434 00:42:14,260 --> 00:42:19,560 and he claimed it would take several years to rebuild it. 435 00:42:19,560 --> 00:42:21,940 Several years they did not have. 436 00:42:23,480 --> 00:42:27,720 NARRATOR From the ashes of World War II a new conflict rose. 437 00:42:28,140 --> 00:42:30,200 The Cold War. 438 00:42:30,200 --> 00:42:36,080 The United States and the Soviet Union had emerged from the war as the two dominant superpowers. 439 00:42:36,080 --> 00:42:41,980 Immediately a battle for ideological and military supremacy began. 440 00:42:42,760 --> 00:42:47,900 With the time machine the Soviets clearly had an unbelievable advantage over us. 441 00:42:47,900 --> 00:42:51,080 Fortunately for us we still had Edward. 442 00:42:51,920 --> 00:42:55,240 Unfortunately Edward had not yet built a functioning prototype. 443 00:42:55,240 --> 00:42:57,614 Everyone was wondering what was going on. 444 00:42:57,620 --> 00:43:02,180 Edward kept saying his research has been set back by several years 445 00:43:03,740 --> 00:43:08,200 but by 1947 the Pentagon began to become deeply concerned. 446 00:43:08,880 --> 00:43:14,700 Edward had built a time machine before. Why couldn't he do it again? 447 00:43:14,700 --> 00:43:19,060 Suspicion was beginning to mount. What was he hiding? 448 00:43:20,080 --> 00:43:24,400 People began to suspect that Edward could be working for the Soviets. 449 00:43:24,400 --> 00:43:30,620 They pointed to the fact that once the prototype was stolen he conveniently forgot how to build it. 450 00:43:31,820 --> 00:43:37,420 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 677 01:03:57,020 --> 01:04:03,760 and slips into a coma where he remains to this day under the watchful eye of his brother. 678 01:04:04,440 --> 01:04:09,920 We were so close to making time travel a possibility. 679 01:04:09,920 --> 01:04:15,660 It would have changed the world, but will we rediscover it? 680 01:04:17,220 --> 01:04:19,240 I think it's only a matter of time. 681 01:04:20,800 --> 01:04:25,720 And when we do there's going to be a lot of questions to answer. 682 01:04:26,800 --> 01:04:33,240 One of the great things about being a science fiction writer is the possibilities of "What if?" 683 01:04:33,240 --> 01:04:37,380 What if Edward Page had invented time travel? 684 01:04:37,380 --> 01:04:40,120 How would that effect us? 685 01:04:40,120 --> 01:04:46,160 We experience time as we perceive it, but if time could be altered 686 01:04:46,160 --> 01:04:55,520 and was being altered would we perceive that? Would we? That's the big question. 687 01:04:55,520 --> 01:04:57,460 Would we even notice? 688 01:04:59,140 --> 01:05:04,875 NARRATOR But until such a time when man is able to leave the boundaries of time and space 689 01:05:04,880 --> 01:05:11,420 the history of time travel will remain within the realm of science fiction. 690 01:05:12,920 --> 01:05:21,740 For Science Fiction Television this has been The Theory of Time Travel.