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Awesome Stuff: Time Travel

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Sat, Oct 11th 2014 9:00am — Mike Masnick

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 A Brief History of Time Travel is a documentary that's not about the concept of time travel itself, but how time travel has become such a big thing in popular culture. It looks at the history of time travel within popular culture and how it's changed over time. Given how common time travel is in so many books, video games, movies and tv shows, this looks pretty cool.
Save the Time Travel Institute I had no idea this existed, but the Time Travel Insititue is an online forum all about (you guessed it!) time travel. And apparently the website may go away, as its current owner has announced plans to shut it down. So there's a crowdfunding effort to save the Time Travel Institute and raise enough money to keep the site alive.
Time Travel Experiment Okay, look, we can't do a post about crowdfunding around time travel projects without at least one project that claims to be about actually trying to do time travel, so here it is. It includes references to an unpublished theses, entangled particles and superluminal communication. Personally, if I were asking someone to fund my time travel experiments I might actually put a lot more information into the pitch to actually explain who I am or what I'm doing, but whoever put this pitch together decided to keep it simply and leave out such details. Perhaps that's why it's only raised a grand total of $2 out of a requested $150,000.

That's it for this week... unless you've figured out a way to travel back to the beginning of the week.

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Physicists Claim Time Travel Is Impossible (This Time, They Mean It)

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Tue, Jul 26th 2011 7:19am — Mike Masnick

Discussing the physics of time travel has come into vogue recently. Even Stephen Hawking -- who admitted he used to fear being labeled a "crank," if he discussed the physics of how time travel might be possible -- has explained how time travel might work (and revealed his desire to go back in time to see Galileo... and Marilyn Monroe). However, some new research states what most of you probably already thought: time travel is a physical impossibility. While I agree that seems likely, I have to admit that I'm a bit amused that the LA Times article about this seems to assume that because it's in a "peer-reviewed scientific journal," that makes it the unquestioned truth. And, while I, once again, tend to agree that it's likely that time travel is impossible, there have been plenty of other things declared impossible by scientists that later proved possible. Remember, Lord Kelvin declared "heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible," just eight short years before he was proven wrong.

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China Says No More Movies And TV Shows About Time Travel

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Thu, Apr 7th 2011 8:31am — Mike Masnick

It's no secret that time travel stories in movies and TV are a bit cliche at this point, but that doesn't stop people from using them repeatedly. It's just such an easy plot device. But, don't expect to see much more of it in China. Ima Fish alerts us to the news that the General Bureau of Radio, Film and Television in China has announced that time travel stories are no longer allowed on TV or in movies. Apparently, such stories are "disrespectful to history" and that many of the "stories are totally made up." Apparently, the General Bureau of Radio, Film and Television in China is unfamiliar with the definition of fiction.

It sounds like time travel stories had become especially popular in Chinese media, and it sounds like someone at the Bureau just got sick of it. Along similar lines, the Bureau has apparently also declared that no more TV/movie versions shall be made of "the four great classical novels of China." Honestly, it really feels like someone (or some people) involved in this Bureau just got sick of seeing similar shows and decided to issue a ban.

Of course, the real question is how long will it take for people in China to create a video that involves going back in time to restock the General Bureau of Radio, Film and Television with people who seem less silly?

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Awesome Stuff: Time Travel

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Physicists Claim Time Travel Is Impossible (This Time, They Mean It)

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China Says No More Movies And TV Shows About Time Travel

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