Noun
time machine (plural time machines)
(chiefly science fiction) A hypothetical device used to travel into the past or the future.
The city is unquestionably-or (to say what is in reality exactly the same, but this time with greater caution) vividly-a time machine. It cannot be made without time reversal, and everything we know about historical geography tells us that it is coming to a screen near you. Nick Land
CALVIN: When I grow up I want to be an inventor. First I will invent a time machine. Then I'll come back to yesterday and take myself to tomorrow and skip this dumb assignment. Bill Watterson
They allow us access to the experience of the past-the only kind of time machine we are ever likely to have. Robert Charles Wilson
Sometimes I wish that I could go into a time machine right now and just look at my self and say, 'Calm down. Things are gonna be fine. Things are gonna be all great. Just relax.' Tristan Wilds
I was thinking the other day about a time machine...and the first thing I thought of doing if I actually had a time machine, is that I would go back in time to about 1993 or '94, and kill George Lucas with a shovel. Patton Oswalt
When I write about a 15-year old, I jump, I return to the days when I was that age. It's like a time machine. I can remember everything. I can feel the wind. I can smell the air. Very actually. Very vividly. Haruki Murakami