We've already talked about the reality of teleporting in our hallowed pages, but ScienCentral somehow managed to corner teleportation movie Jumper director Doug Liman and star Hayden Christensen at MIT to ask them what they really know about the scientific conceit of their latest flick. Check it:
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If you’re a “His Dark Materials” geek like me, you already know that the movie adaptation of Philip Pullman’s sci-fi novel The Golden Compass is opening in theaters across the country today. And even if you’re not a fan, you probably know this because its negative spin, shall we say, on Catholicism has been hyped and debated ad nauseum.
What appears to have been lost in all this, but was the original draw for many readers, is Pullman’s play with science, especially dark matter and quantum mechanics.
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