[The TIme Machine] How did a Victorian Era inventor manage to create a functional Time Machine in his time period when the best present day scientists around the world using cutting edge technology on a gigantic scale can barely scratch the surface of temporal physics at only a subatomic level?

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[The TIme Machine] How did a Victorian Era inventor manage to create a functional Time Machine in his time period when the best present day scientists around the world using cutting edge technology on a gigantic scale can barely scratch the surface of temporal physics at only a subatomic level?

It's weird and mind-bendingly frustrating - but it happens.

The pre-Columbian Americas didn't have carts. Like, working platforms with wheels and axles. They didn't even have the wheelbarrow.

Which is not to say that they didn't understand these things, because there are children's toys that have wheels on them with axles. They knew about this technology - at least sort of.

Now, some can make the argument (and many, many have) that this was a needs-based issue because they lacked beasts of burden, no one thought to make a cart (no oxen, no donkeys, no horses - the Andean people had llamas, but their anatomy makes for poor cart-pulling attributes). I say this is weak thinking because a person can pull a cart easily and wheelbarrows are incredible work multipliers.

It melts one's brain to try to understand why something gets invented and when.

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[The TIme Machine] How did a Victorian Era inventor manage to create a functional Time Machine in his time period when the best present day scientists around the world using cutting edge technology on a gigantic scale can barely scratch the surface of temporal physics at only a subatomic level?

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