0 (especially in stories and films) a machine in which people can travel into the past or the future --
Though initial reports stated that the film would feature a time machine, they were later dismissed.
This was due to an accident with a contraceptive and a time machine.
Their time machine then suddenly resumes operation again, and they elect to ignore the problem.
A doctor from 1900, transported in a time machine to the year 2000, would have absolutely no chance of playing any active role whatsoever in a serious operation.
This series of events began some 300 million years ago and to deal with that in a half hour means a very swift travelling time machine.
Current legislation, in respect of employment, immigration and education, reflects a society beyond which we have now moved, but this measure takes us even further back in the time machine.
But let us imagine that the same actors could jump into a time machine and go forward 15 years, and make decisions then as they have now.
Visiting them is like travelling back in a time machine and getting out 25 years ago.
