 What don't they know about the time machine?
Yes, it'll be pretty obvious it must be a time machine. You'll be puzzling over what I'll tell you, and you'll be getting used to the idea that you are the man who makes atomic power practical. You are completely outside of time and space, as best you can guess how things are. Then it comes to you slowly that you're actually traveling in time. "Maybe it's no dimension—or it might be the fifth; if you're going to skip over the so-called fourth without traveling along it, you'd need a fifth. There may have been a time when you did invent the machine—the atomic motor first, then the time-machine. I figured out once that such a universe would need some seven or eight time and space dimensions. Maybe there is no machine, and it's just easier for us to imagine it. That means you either carry a small time field with you, or you are catching a small increment of time from the main field. Out there is neither time nor space, apparently. Maybe the machine has a gravity field built in, or maybe the time that makes your watch run is responsible for gravity. In spite of Einstein, you have always had the idea that time is an effect of gravity, and I sort of agree, still. He told me, just as I'm telling you, that it's an interstellar civilization." There's no feeling of acceleration—some kind of false gravity they use in the future.
 who invented it
 who invented it  what the third set of buttons do  where it gets stored when not in use  how to make it go back and forth in time