Anyone up for a lil Chaos Theory?

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There was a really good tv show years ago called Sliders.

Quinn Mallory, a graduate student of physics specializing in string theory from San Francisco, creates a device capable of opening vortices to alternate universes. He develops the technology to the extent that not only can he send items through the gateway he created, but also, with the use of a timer-a kind of time space tv remote control, return them to their point of origin. He uses himself as his first living "guinea pig." After his initial slide, he returns to find a double from another universe has caused him a bit of trouble but also helped him solve the final 'missing piece' in the equation for sliding (which includes a solution to the unified field theory).

His best friend Wade Welles and his professor/mentor Maximillian Arturo join him on his second test. However, the wormhole grows unstable and spirals out of control. Singer Rembrandt "Cryin' Man" Brown, driving by Quinn's house, is accidentally sucked through with them.

When faced with a life-or-death situation, the timer is activated ahead of time - more than four hours before it was scheduled to - and is damaged and original coordinates lost. Thus the Sliders cannot return home. This leaves them unable to control when the vortices open, or which universe they leap to, literally having to wait around in a different world for hours, days or even months before they can move on. The Sliders continue moving from universe to universe, hoping they'll find their way back home.

Common themes during this season include the exploration of political issues, and the appearances of recurring characters' alternate selves, showing how their situations had changed in various realities.

I remember watching this show when it was on...I thought the concept was very interesting. I'd watched three hours of a class on superstring theory by this physicist and found this radio interview he'd done:

Uncovering the Codes for Reality
March 1, 2012

Physicist James Gates reveals why string theory stretches our imaginations about the nature of reality. Are we in the matrix? Also, how failure makes us more complete, and imagination makes us more knowledgeable.

Uncovering the Codes for Reality | On Being