Comments on: FlashForward: science fact vs. science fiction

By: Newton

Newton — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 04:57:00 +0000

It is a great production by ABC, but there is a very rear chance of such happening.

By: kellyp

kellyp — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 18:11:12 +0000

Um, that is the premise of the book, the show is based on. When they fire up the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, the world blacks out and sees themselves in 20 years. I wouldn’t blame the show or tv in general for this. Obviously there is no chance of this happening but when it was written, the author was trying to capitalize on the misguided angst about the project.

By: Ray

Ray — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 18:48:39 +0000

I saw that episode as well and found it amusing! It is a good show but I think that they are just feeding off of the hoopla from the experiment at CERN last year. Black Holes and sudden destruction are always great topics for a TV show….

By: John

John — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 17:32:15 +0000

Fiction or not, is there anything the TV networks Wouldn’t do for ratings including portraying the national science centers as Dr Strangelove’s laboratories? There is a lot of realy great science done at SLAC. It is a shame TV network writers can’t educate while entertaining. Whatever happened to the obligation to serve the public good while using the public airways?

By: bswift

bswift — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 20:15:33 +0000

Or is this just the same hubris that the fictional physicists suffered from. “Oh, our experiment couldn’t *possibly* do that!” (j/k of course…)