{"product_id":"2940014087292","title":"Two Timer","description":"Experiment\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The first time machine, gentlemen,\" Professor Johnson proudly informed\u003cbr\u003ehis two colleagues. \"True, it is a small-scale experimental model. It\u003cbr\u003ewill operate only on objects weighing less than three pounds, five\u003cbr\u003eounces and for distances into the past and future of twelve minutes or\u003cbr\u003eless. But it works.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe small-scale model looked like a small scale--a postage scale--except\u003cbr\u003efor two dials in the part under the platform.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eProfessor Johnson held up a small metal cube. \"Our experimental object,\"\u003cbr\u003ehe said, \"is a brass cube weighing one pound, two point three ounces.\u003cbr\u003eFirst, I shall send it five minutes into the future.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHe leaned forward and set one of the dials on the time machine. \"Look at\u003cbr\u003eyour watches,\" he said.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThey looked at their watches. Professor Johnson placed the cube gently\u003cbr\u003eon the machine's platform. It vanished.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFive minutes later, to the second, it reappeared.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eProfessor Johnson picked it up. \"Now five minutes into the past.\" He set\u003cbr\u003ethe other dial. Holding the cube in his hand he looked at his watch. \"It\u003cbr\u003eis six minutes before three o'clock. I shall now activate the\u003cbr\u003emechanism--by placing the cube on the platform--at exactly three\u003cbr\u003eo'clock. Therefore, the cube should, at five minutes before three,\u003cbr\u003evanish from my hand and appear on the platform, five minutes before I\u003cbr\u003eplace it there.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"How can you place it there, then?\" asked one of his colleagues.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"It will, as my hand approaches, vanish from the platform and appear in\u003cbr\u003emy hand to be placed there. Three o'clock. Notice, please.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe cube vanished from his hand.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt appeared on the platform of the time machine.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"See? Five minutes before I shall place it there, it _is_ there!\"","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47079867744496,"sku":"2940014087292","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940014087292_p0.jpg?v=1763600420","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940014087292","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}