Scientists claims to have invented 'time machine'

Great Scott; an Iranian boffin claims to have invented a ‘time machine’.

Creator Ali Razeghi says the machine can predict up to eight years in the future with a 98 per cent accuracy, he told Iran’s Fars news agency.

The machine, dubbed ‘The Aryayek Time Traveling Machine’ supposedly works by using a complex set of algorithms which he says took him ten years to develop and he claims the device ‘will not take you into the future, it will bring the future to you’.

However, unlike Emmett Brown’s DeLorean in Back to the Future, rather than physically transport someone into the future, it instead runs models on how events will pan out.

“My invention easily fits into the size of a personal computer case and can predict details of the next five to eight years of the life of its users,” he told Fars.

“Naturally a government that can see five years into the future would be able to prepare itself for challenges that might destabilise it.”

“As such, we expect to market this invention among states as well as individuals once we reach a mass production stage.”

He reckons the Iranian government could use the machine to predict future military conflicts, the price of oil and currency fluctuations.

“The Americans are trying to make this invention by spending millions of dollars on it where I have already achieved it by a fraction of the cost,' he said, without divulging how much.”

The scientist – who has patented 179 other inventions - says he is not planning to launch the prototype yet in case ‘the Chinese steal the idea and produce it in millions overnight’.

However, there are other reasons to be sceptical.

The news agency, Fars, which is the original source of the story, appears to have deleted the story and the website link is now dead.

And Iran has a history of over-the-top reporting. Recently, the state media has produced Photoshopped drones, a fake stealth fighter and an unconfirmed story regarding a monkey’s trip into space.