Time Travel - Did I travel back in time or not?

In my book about time travel I would like you to decide whether or not I travel back in time or not.
Traveling in time is not a proven pastime. However, many people would dearly like it to be true and factual. Certainly it is a mesmerising subject in which we all seem to be able to be readily engrossed.

Imagine if it were possible. What would you do if you could time travel for just one day maybe? A lot of people tend to think of the classic scenario's such as taking the lottery numbers back with you or trying to prevent a big disaster that occurred in the past in which you perhaps had an interest.

Of course the problem with all these things is that if you changed something in the past even if it was something really small, it could change a lot of things in the future so on returning it could be an absolute disaster. Remember the film "Back to the Future" when Biff got hold of the "Almanac" which had all the results of the races in? Just look what happened when Marty got back from one of his adventures - total chaos when Biff became the richest man in the world.

It could of course be even worse than that. If you went back in time and accidentally killed your own father before you were born, what would happen to you - would you just disappear?  Again, remember Marty when he was on stage playing his guitar and he began to be erased from the newspaper.

So if you were able to be a time traveler, would you take the risk and go back for just nostalgic purposes and try not to change anything and just observe? It would be a difficult decision to make in certain circumstances. For instance, imagine that your child ran across the road and was killed. You went back in time and just held his hand this time. Who could actually refrain from doing this even though the consequences could be amazingly different. Of course in this situation you would reason that it would be worth the risk.

So the question that is on everybody's mind is; is time travel possible? The eminent scientist Stephen Hawking gave the most plausible and simple answer to this when he said "if time travel were possible, then they would have already come back to tell us" and yet we still want to believe. Something intrinsic within us wants it to be so.

I my book called "Inside the Clock", which is based on a true story, has real characters, pets and places, I explore time travel using a true event which actually happened to me. In this event, I am taken back in time without notice to a time and place in my youth. In this scenario, I am back with my first love, a young blonde girl with mesmerising blue eyes. Through a combination of naivety and stupidity, I manage to mess up our relationship and she dumps me for my best friend. When I go back in time to that very day, do I now with the benefit of hindsight, do the right thing and make up with her or do I let things be? If I make up with her and perhaps even marry her, then what of my future family and children. They would not exist on my return.

In this, my first novel, I attempt to portray a convincing down to earth account of what would happen if I made that trip back to that day. How do I react and what do I actually do and how can I prove that I had indeed gone back in time? The answer is "Inside the Clock"