Minutemen — Disney TV Movie
The latest teeny-bop fodder from Disney debuts tonight. High school nerds invent a time machine (I’ve always wanted one of those), and accidentally go further back than they planned. That, of course, disrupts the time-continuum and causes a black-hole to form on the high school grounds (how could it not?)
If you have 10 to 14 year old kids, they will probably like this, it does have its funny moments. Certainly no Back to the Future, it is just good enough to entertain those who haven’t tired of the nerd vs jock cliches.
Of course the show has no science, but in the real world, don’t write off the possibility of time travel yet. Physicists are beginning to suspect that indeed, there may be more than one time dimension, which opens up all sorts of theoretical possibilities. Even without further dimensions, some physicists like Li-Xin Li and J. Richard Gott III of Princeton University suggest that relativity does not entirely rule out the possibility of traveling back in time.
I’m ready to go, just as soon as I get back from my trip to Mars…