Awesome Stuff: Time Travel
from the 1.21-gigawatts dept
For this week's awesome stuff post of interesting crowdfunding projects, we decided to look at time travel. There are actually a bunch of crowdfunding projects for people writing (yet another) book about time travel, but here are three other types of interesting crowdfunding projects related (somehow) to time travel.- A Brief History of Time Travel
- Save the Time Travel Institute
- Time Travel Experiment
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My theory
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Re: My theory
Time is no more real than math. Math is a logical construct we use to evaluate things, but just like time that evaluation exists separate of any known physical force.
In order for a force called time to exist then several things are required. Infinite matter and energy at every point in the universe and a mechanism to harness and control it.
Time travel is every bit a religion of pseudoscience and a religion with less foundation than any of the theological ones!
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Re: because time is nothing more than a concept created by humans
The only way time travel would be impossible would be if time was not a concept created by humans.
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patent minefield
http://www.google.com/patents/US20090234788
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Re: patent minefield
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TTE
On one condition. Bertematti sends me an email from the future with the message "Thanks, it worked!" and full design specs for his completed time travel mechanism.
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The Nature Of Time
In short, recording a memory in a physical system increases the entropy of the physical system. This is why it is impossible to remember time going backwards.
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Another great Crowfunding Time Travel idea !!!
SEND ME is a web series about Gwen (Tracie Thoms), a woman who has the power to send fellow African Americans back in time to slavery as a character building measure. The power has been passed down through her family. Her best friend and confidant Katherine (Gabrielle Carteris) is keeping her secret. Her husband, Peter (a role played by creator Steve Harper), thinks she shouldn’t do this anymore. They’ve sent two people back – one never returned. Over the course of the series we navigate the marital conflict and see the candidates. Secrets are revealed and betrayals take place. The drama plays out in the front and back rooms of the comic book store Gwen and Peter own - and in some flashbacks to the 1800s. Someone from present day gets chosen to take the journey by the end of the six-episode season.
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Time travel story...
A scientist has developed a small, prototype time machine that can send small objects forward and backward in time. He first demonstrates it to his colleagues by placing something (maybe a coin?) on the platform and setting it for a couple minutes in the future. The object disappears and then re-appears at the set time.
He then tells his associates that ten minutes into the future, he will send the object back in time eight minutes. Two minutes later, the object appears on the platform. He says that now he just has to complete the operation by sending it back at the appointed time.
One of the other scientists asks what would happen if he decided not to send it back. Would it cause a paradox, considering that the object had already appeared in the past? The scientist thinks this is an interesting question and decides to test it by not sending the object back as he had originally intended.
There was no paradox, the entire universe simply blinked out of existence. :)
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TTI isn't going away
Time Travel Institute isn't going away - We scrounged up the money ourselves and we've been online for a few weeks now :)
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