[4] Before taking book form, several of Cummings's stories appeared serialized in pulp magazines.

is what keeps everything from happening at once",[7] a sentence repeated by scientists such as C. J. Overbeck,[8] and John Archibald Wheeler,[9][10] and often misattributed to the likes of Einstein or Feynman.

Sources focus on his earlier work, The Time Professor, published in 1921, as its earliest documented usage.

He also contributed stories to the Human Torch and Sub-Mariner, which his daughter Betty Cummings often penned.

[citation needed] Cummings died on January 22, 1957, at Mount Vernon, New York, of a cerebral hemorrhage.