this scene is a bit confusing to me, if the machine dissapears when hes traveling through time then how does george get incased in lava that turns to solid rock? surely if he was traveling through time he simply would not be there and the lava would form in the empty space were george and machine once occupied.
shareYou are correct. The space he and his machine occupy is solid, which puts him in a dangerous position because he needs said space to empty out again before he can stop again.
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I like to think George actually is within the solidified rock, or rather, coexisting along with the rock in the same space. Without going into my own made-up rules about time travel, this was possible only when George was moving through time. That's why it was important for the rock to wear away.
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Sort of like he and the time machine are out of phase with the physical world while time traveling, and if he stopped, he would have lethally merged with the rock.
shareI go along with the theory others have said: that he's fine so long as he's travelling through time.
A similar thing that concerned me was that the ground level would have to go up or down over hundreds of years, certainly over 800,000 years. So he could stop to a lovely great drop into a chasm or new lake or find himself covered in mud.
But I put that aside because it removes the ability to have to machine as it stands. And that spoils all the wonder and enjoyment of probably the most beautiful of all the sci-fi films, that I've seen anyway :-)
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Wells addresses this in the novel:
"The peculiar risk lay in the possibility of my finding some substance in the space which I, or the machine, occupied. So long as I traveled at a high velocity through time, this scarcely mattered: I was, so to speak, attenuated—was slipping like a vapor through the interstices of intervening substances! But to come to a stop involved the jamming of myself, molecule by molecule, into whatever lay in my way, meant bringing my atoms into such intimate contact with those of the obstacle that a profound chemical reaction—possibly a far-reaching explosion—would result, and blow myself and my apparatus out of the Rigid Universe—out of all possible dimensions—into the Unknown."
Great post. I haven't read the book in years and don't remember that (probably too far ahead of me as I was a kid). Sounds like Wells was postulating on the uncertainty principle, nuclear reactions, and multi-dimensionality of the universe.
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I wont mention the obvious--there are no volcanoes in london.
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