Displacement
Brilliant physics student Cassandra Sinclair finds herself running from the evil
Initiative Organization—which includes her childhood friend Josh and a posh lady with
an English accent—who are after the equations in her thesis notes that somehow (she’s
not quite sure how) launched her on multiple slips back in time (we counted eight) that
may or may not result in destroying yourself by getting too close to yourself, a closed
timelike curve, quantum entanglement, and/or solving the Grandfather Paradox (without
ever having anything that resembles the Grandfather Paradox, quantum entanglement, or a
closed timelike curve). We suspect that writer/director Kenneth Mader had been reading
“
Experimental Simulation of Closed Timelike Curves,” but the
actual science didn’t fully translate from the lab to the silver screen.
Handy Hint:
The movie is eminently more watchable in a late-night group where everyone shouts
“Great Scott!” whenever a character spews a sequence of pseudoscientific quantum
mumbo jumbo that vaguely resembles an English sentence.
— Michael Main
We’ve been running simulations to resolve the Grandfather Paradox, and we experienced
an unusual electromagnetic pulse at the school that was triggered remotely. We were able
to locate the source, but I suspect someone may have taken our simulations a step
further.
. . . The equation in your daughter’s
thesis notes may have actually solved the paradox. But they’re untested and now
they’re missing, and you said Charles has been absent. Could he have taken them and
induced an entanglement?!