"It's a remarkable thing, your grace, but the researchers do seem to have created something that allows it. Travelling through time, I mean."
"We hadn't thought it possible. They've actually built a proof of concept?"
"Yes, a hyper-toroidal space folding in three other dimensions: it moves everything within through time at a consistent rate."
"Ha! And what does one even call such a device?"
"I think... I think they call it a 'universe', your grace."