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Originally Posted by trichobezoar
According to 10 Words Coined in the Sci-Fi Universe,
"While time travel has been considered since as early as The Mahabharata, H. G. Wells gave the English language much-used terminology on the subject. In 1894 Wells coined terms related to time travel such as time travelling and time traveller in his story with the heading "Time Travelling: Possibility or Paradox." A year later, in his novella The Time Machine, Wells explores time travel in more detail as an unnamed protagonist moves backwards and forwards in time, encountering the mythical species of the Eloi and the Morlocks on his way."
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But it took another 112 years or so before David Tennant managed to put forward a one-sentence definition of time travel's complexities and complications: