If you were to build a time machine, it would have a very simple design. It would have a square base with four isosceles triangles for walls. Its interior would be filled with a dense material of great mass such as granite or limestone. Despite our conditioned Hollywood-inspired image of a time machine, my time machine would not have any electronics. Simply put, my time machine would resemble the Great Pyramid in Egypt. If we take an analytical view of my equation, Rainer’s longevity equation of time, we notice that time (T) is a factor of distance (D), mass (M), and the inverse of energy (E).

Rainer’s temporal longevity equation

T=√D2x M x 1/E

Obviously, we can travel forward in time by traveling in a very fast spaceship (magnified D). Our personal clock would slow to near a stop, while those residing on earth would continue to tick. We could also freeze our bodies to near absolute zero, significantly reducing our basal metabolic rates (a decrease in E). Obviously, it’s not the most comfortable experience imaginable. Finally, we could build a huge pyramid structure with a very high mass (increase M). The inner chamber could be fitted with a chamber ventilation system to allow access for air and food. Sounds familiar? The Great Pyramids of Egypt exactly match this description.

If we were to test our time machine by placing a five-year-old boy in its chamber, a stranger looking into the inner chamber of the pyramid would notice that the boy barely ages even after ten years. However, the child looking from the pyramid will notice that the observers of him on the outside of the pyramid will quickly age before his eyes. Also, if the boy wore a wristwatch, the time on his watch would be substantially behind the time outside the pyramid once he emerged. In fact, the child would have traveled to the future. Time is relative and the pyramid has the ability to alter the time inside it relative to its outside due to its extremely large mass (M).

An interesting modern experiment would involve the use of extremely accurate atomic clocks. These watches have the ability to measure time in thousands of milliseconds. Suppose we synchronize the time of two atomic clocks on the outside of the Great Pyramid. One of the atomic clocks would be placed in the innermost chamber of the Great Pyramid, while the other atomic clock would be placed outside the pyramid. After a month or more, the time recorded by the atomic clock recovered from the interior of the Great Pyramid would be significantly behind the time of the atomic clock outside the Great Pyramid. Thus, the pyramid served as a time machine, slowing down time inside it relative to time outside the pyramid.

Additionally, a second experiment could involve the lifespan of mice living inside the Great Pyramid versus those living outside the pyramid. Mice living on the inside of the Great Pyramid would be observed to outlive mice living on the outside of the pyramid since water and food remain available.

Although modern physicists have noted that time slows down near large masses, they have claimed, and I believe incorrectly, that this phenomenon is due to ‘gravitational redshift’. I affirm that the great masses distort the space which secondarily increases the Time variable. In addition, fast forward movement (D) and energy reduction (E) also have a magnifying effect on time (T).

The Great Pyramids are, in fact, time machines. Whether the pyramids possessed the ability to launch time travelers hundreds or thousands of years into the future remains to be seen. However, the Egyptian pharaohs may have used the pyramids to prolong their lives, i.e. a fountain of youth. Perhaps the pyramids were used to buy time for those diagnosed with incurable cancers. In any case, there remains no reason why similar structures could not be used today for similar purposes.

Naturally, if we were to build pyramids of greater height and significantly greater mass, the efficiency of our time machine would be substantially improved.

Unfortunately, the price of our pyramid time machine would run into the trillions. If we choose to build a time machine on a budget, we might, in fact, try another approach. By digging underground we can take advantage of the mass of the earth and thus increase the mass variable (M). Second, if we were to excavate in an arctic region of the globe, we could also take advantage of the energy reduction (decrease in E) component of Rainer’s temporal longevity equation.

So a budget time machine would be a chamber deep inside the earth with the potential to reach freezing temperatures.

During World War II, the German Nazis transported more than 250,000 scientists and military personnel to a region between 20 degrees East and 10 degrees West in Queen Maud Land in Antarctica. The Nazis called this Antarctic region Neuschwabenland.

Was Neuschwabenland the first attempt by modern man to build a time machine? Maybe on second thought, is there already a time machine in Antarctica?