The Fall

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This book is about time.

And time is a peculiar thing. Professor John Wheeler of Princeton University described time as ‘nature’s way to keep everything from happening all at once.’ And although scientists have difficulty in agreeing a universal definition of time, most would agree that it is a one-way street: there’s no going back.

But have you ever wished you could change history? Think of those big events such as wars, shipwrecks and aeroplane crashes where a quick trip back through time could save hundreds, thousands, if not millions of lives.

For instance, imagine you found yourself in Southampton on that fateful 10 April in 1912, just before the Titanic set sail for New York. Would you warn those about to board that it would sink? Like many people, I’ve slipped into the shoes of an imaginary time traveller and wondered what would have happened if I’d run along the queue of passengers telling them that an iceberg would open up the ship like a sardine can.

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