‘Stuart Fails to Save the Universe’ Co-Creator Bill Prady Explains the Science Behind the Show’s Multiverse
Popular on Variety According to Alt Stuart, it was “The Big Bang Theory” characters Leonard, Sheldon and Howard who built a quantum interference device...
Key points
- Popular on Variety According to Alt Stuart, it was “The Big Bang Theory” characters Leonard, Sheldon and Howard who built a quantum interference device that caused reality to be altered.
- All is saved, until Kripke kills Raj — and the device then activates, taking Stuart, Bert and Kripke to another universe.
- So I would ask him a question like, ‘how can my character be here and be there at the same time?’ And I had an epiphany at one point when I realized, oh wait, so it’s not just parallel universes — it’s parallel universes with a little time travel mixed in!” Sussman says there were points while filming the show where it would help to understand the quantum physics theory behind what was happening in a particular scene.
- ‘No, see, the reason why this does make sense is A, B and C.’” Prady explains that the device that Leonard, Sheldon and Howard built seems to have shifted the primary characters to a universe with a separate, distinct history that has an apocalyptic event that occurs sometime after “The Big Bang Theory” and before we meet them.
What happened
Popular on Variety According to Alt Stuart, it was “The Big Bang Theory” characters Leonard, Sheldon and Howard who built a quantum interference device that caused reality to be altered. All is saved, until Kripke kills Raj — and the device then activates, taking Stuart, Bert and Kripke to another universe. So I would ask him a question like, ‘how can my character be here and be there at the same time?’ And I had an epiphany at one point when I realized, oh wait, so it’s not just parallel universes — it’s parallel universes with a little time travel mixed in!” Sussman says there were points while filming the show where it would help to understand the quantum physics theory behind what was happening in a particular scene. ‘No, see, the reason why this does make sense is A, B and C.’” Prady explains that the device that Leonard, Sheldon and Howard built seems to have shifted the primary characters to a universe with a separate, distinct history that has an apocalyptic event that occurs sometime after “The Big Bang Theory” and before we meet them. But “the branching theory of multiverses states essentially that every quantum event that could go one way also could go the other, and at...
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