{"647853":{"#nid":"647853","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Exploring the Boundaries of Time Travel","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ELisa Yaszek\u003C\/strong\u003E,\u0026nbsp;Regents Professor in the\u0026nbsp;School of Literature, Media, and Communication, was interviewed for\u0026nbsp;\u0026quot;Exploring the Boundaries of Time Travel,\u0026quot; which aired\u0026nbsp;May 30,\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;2021, on \u003Cem\u003ECBS News Sunday Morning\u003C\/em\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe story discussed the historical origins of time-travel stories and whether time travel is scientifically feasible.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EExcerpt:\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cblockquote\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe idea of time travel is actually as old as civiliaztion itself, and we see the very first stories in the Mahabharata, the great Indian epic,\u0026nbsp;in 400 B.C.E, so they are nearly 2500 years old.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAs we moved into an industrial culture, and suddenly we had trains that had to move on schedule from station to station, and\u0026nbsp;ships that had to cross great bodies of water and make it into docks at cetain times, we had to\u0026nbsp;make sure that humans in different parts of the world were telling time in the same waus. And I think that was really exciting. We felt like we suddenly did have a little control over time.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"35826","created_gmt":"2021-06-01 16:19:14","changed_gmt":"2021-06-03 16:19:50","author":"mshepard31","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Roswell Biotechnologies","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/video\/exploring-the-boundaries-of-time-travel\/","dateline":{"date":"2021-05-30T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2021-05-30T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"647841":{"id":"647841","type":"image","title":"Lisa Yaszek","body":null,"created":"1622232958","gmt_created":"2021-05-28 20:15:58","changed":"1622232970","gmt_changed":"2021-05-28 20:16:10","alt":"Lisa Yaszek","file":{"fid":"245926","name":"YaszekLisa_web-square.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/YaszekLisa_web-square.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/YaszekLisa_web-square.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":376888,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/YaszekLisa_web-square.jpg?itok=ZF_BEo-E"}}},"media_ids":["647841"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}