A scientist in Iran said he has created a time machine. Ali Razeghi, a scientist in Tehran, has registered "The Aryayak Time Traveling Machine" with the state-run Centre for Strategic Inventions.
The device can predict the future in a print out after taking readings from the touch of a user, Razeghi told the Fars state news agency.
The 27-year old said the device will "predict five to eight years of the future life of any individual, with 98 percent accuracy" using a complex set of algorithms.
Razeghi serves as the managing director of Iran's Centre for Strategic Inventions, and is a serial inventor, with 179 other inventions listed under his name.
"I have been working on this project for the last 10 years," he said. "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.
"It will not take you into the future, it will bring the future to you," he said
The Iranian government can predict the possibility of a military confrontation with a foreign country and forecast the fluctuations in the values of foreign currencies and oil prices with the use of his device, according to the inventor.
"Naturally a government that can see five years into the future would be able to prepare itself for challenges that might destabilize it," Razeghi said. "As such, we expect to market this invention among states as well as individuals once we reach a mass production stage."
Razeghi said he's been criticized by his own family and friends for "trying to play God" with people's lives and history.
"This project is not against our religious values at all," he said. "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.
"The reason that we are not launching our prototype at this stage is that the Chinese will steal the idea and produce it in millions overnight," he said.
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