Quantum Leaps – What’s the Future for Carbon Management?
- Mar 25
- 6 min read
Anyone watching TV in the eighties and nineties must have caught an episode or two of Quantum Leap, the US series featuring fictional physicist, Dr Sam Beckett. Sam is an inspiring character with six doctoral degrees, a black belt in kung fu and a photographic memory who (strictly in his spare time) is also a musical prodigy. He’s clearly a busy guy, but the fun really starts for him when he develops a high energy particle accelerator and decides to test it without a thought for the FDA approval process. He is immediately launched into the past, and from then on, continues to leap through time without control, without his full memory and (for some reason) often without clothes.
Helped by ‘Al’, a cigar smoking, neon-suited military hero who appears as a hologram from the future, Sam works out that, in each new time he finds himself, he needs to put right a wrong. The ultimate science fiction ‘Good Samaritan’ was created and, according to the series finale, he may be still out there somewhere helping high school quarterbacks win important games and saving families from house fires.
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