Actually, there are four dimensions-three that we refer to as the three planes of space and a fourth, called time. The Original Classic from 1895 The most reasonable assumption would be to test a machine that can travel across time when an English scientist, only known as the Time Traveller, creates one. The Time Traveler pushes deeper into the future, to the year 802,701, after a trial run that saw him go three hours in the past. There, he encounters the relaxed human race known as the Eloi. He soon learns that there are still more human races on Earth besides the Eloi.