By reducing millennia to milliseconds, Earth's great landmarks - the Grand Canyon, the Sphinx, the Sahara, Mount Everest - are no longer seen as fixed terrains, but ever changing landforms. Rivers slice through solid rock, mountains rise and fall and seas grow into mighty oceans. Life around us has its own rhythms. Golden Globe jellyfish have their own rush hour, moving en masse from the depths to the surface to follow the sun across the sky, whereas cicadas can spend their first 17 years frozen in time underground. Life also operates on longer time scales for its survival. A hummingbird changes it's bill to fit the long trumpet of a flower to feed on it's nectar so it fits like a lock and key. But is there a secret to eternal life - can any living thing live forever? And what of mans relationship with time? In Las Vegas, the 24/7 lifestyle has had an unexpected effect on the natural world; in paddy fields we are cheating time and growing rice faster than nature intended and revolutions in transport mean we can travel further and faster than ever before. But will man ever be able to defy time? Time Machine reveals how scientists are looking to the humble worm for the key to a longer life.