Everyone knows the rules by now, even people who haven't watched the trilogy in years. You need a flux capacitor. You need 1.21 gigawatts of power. And you need to hit exactly 88 miles per hour at the moment it all comes together. Say those numbers out loud to almost anyone and they'll nod, maybe … Continue reading Could Back to the Future’s Time Travel Actually Work?
Time Travel
The Question I Couldn’t Stop Asking (And the Book It Became)
I was five years old the first time I saw Back to the Future, sitting in the back of my family's car at a drive-in theater. I didn't understand half of what was happening on screen. I definitely didn't understand the science, or the lack of it, behind a souped-up DeLorean hitting 88 miles per … Continue reading The Question I Couldn’t Stop Asking (And the Book It Became)
The Weight of Monday Morning
The machine was never supposed to work. Daniel Marsh had spent the better part of three years cataloguing the contents of his late uncle's warehouse — a labyrinthine structure on the outskirts of Chicago packed floor to ceiling with the eccentric accumulations of a man who had, by all accounts, been either a visionary or … Continue reading The Weight of Monday Morning
Time Travel in Endgame: How the MCU Handled This Complex Sci-Fi Trope
When the Avengers lost to Thanos in Infinity War, half of all life in the universe turned to dust. The survivors were left to grapple with an unfathomable defeat, and audiences walked out of theaters in stunned silence. We all knew there had to be a way to undo the Snap—but how? The answer the … Continue reading Time Travel in Endgame: How the MCU Handled This Complex Sci-Fi Trope
The Scribe’s Paradox
Brother Thomas had been copying manuscripts in the scriptorium of Glastonbury Abbey for seventeen years, and in all that time, he had never once questioned the steady rhythm of his days. Dawn prayers, breakfast of bread and ale, then hours bent over vellum with his quill, carefully reproducing the words of Saint Augustine or chronicling … Continue reading The Scribe’s Paradox
The Peculiar Predicament of Jeremiah Hawthorne
Jeremiah Hawthorne, all of nineteen years and some change, wiped the sweat from his brow as he hefted another log onto the growing pile. The Blue Ridge Mountains loomed in the distance, a constant reminder of the wild frontier that lay beyond. It was 1753, and life on the edges of Colonial Virginia was as … Continue reading The Peculiar Predicament of Jeremiah Hawthorne
The Paradox of Pete Peterson
"Frakking samophlange!" cursed Pete Peterson as his time machine sputtered to a stop. The whirling vortex of the timestream faded, depositing him unceremoniously in the middle of a dirt road. A quick check of his temporal navigation system confirmed his worst fears - he was stuck in the year 1882, smack dab in the Wild … Continue reading The Paradox of Pete Peterson
Rewatching Quantum Leap – Episode 97
Ah, "Mirror Image." The episode that left Quantum Leap fans everywhere scratching their heads and reaching for the tissues. As the unintended series finale, this mind-bending journey through Sam Beckett's birthday managed to raise more questions than it answered. But hey, that's just part of its quirky charm, right? In this trippy installment, Sam finds … Continue reading Rewatching Quantum Leap – Episode 97
Rewatching Quantum Leap – Episode 96
Hey there, fellow Leapers! Today, we're taking a trip down memory lane to revisit a classic episode of Quantum Leap: "Memphis Melody." This gem from Season 5 has Sam Beckett leaping into the one and only Elvis Presley, just as the King is about to make his first recording at Sun Records in Memphis. Talk … Continue reading Rewatching Quantum Leap – Episode 96
Rewatching Quantum Leap – Episode 95
As a self-proclaimed Quantum Leap aficionado, I've seen my fair share of episodes that bend the rules of the show's universe. But none quite as daringly as the season five gem, "The Leap Between the States." In this episode, Sam Beckett (Scott Bakula) leaps into his own great-grandfather, Captain John Beckett, during the American Civil … Continue reading Rewatching Quantum Leap – Episode 95
The Confusing Middle 