String Theory

 

“So I began to think more 

and more about The Individual, 

and I looked into 

what that actually meant. 

And what it was, 

was a structure that was 

pretty much created… 

The Ego-Structure was created 

out of what Julian Jaynes calls 

the “bicameral mind” 

becoming ONE mind.
And apparently – according to him – 

he says that back in the old days 

of the Greeks, 

and the earliest writing of the world, 

people didn’t have self-consciousness 

in the way that we have. 

They didn’t have egos. 

They didn’t understand themselves 

as “I” in the same way that we do. 

Because the corpus callosum – 

that connects the two hemispheres 

of the brain 

– WASN’T CONNECTED.

So if you heard A Voice, 

that voice was God. 

And Homer, and all those guys, 

you’ve got plenty of examples 

of people hearing 

the voice of God, 

and acting on that. 

Alexander constantly acted 

on the voice of God.

Julian Jaynes suggests that 

it wasn’t the voice of God – 

it was the voice of the left hemisphere of the brain communicating with the right hemisphere of the brain, 

interpreted AS a god.

So okay: now we’ve got the two things joined together. 

We’ve got this beautiful bridge in the middle that links the two. 
But we have the ego structure – which was created when those things linked.”

The Observer :

Bad enough I have to give Dick-and-Jane explanations to The President.

I've gotta give you one too. All right.

One end of this string represents Your Birth.

The other end, Your Death. 

You tie the ends together, 

and your life is a loop.

Ball The Loop...

and the days of your life 

touch each other 

out of sequence.

Therefore, leaping from one point 

of the string to another...

Would move you backward or forward 

within your own lifetime.

Which is Our Project :

Quantum Leap!

Future Boy :

Moe?

Sorry. I... I... I knocked.

I guess you didn't hear me.

Captain Galaxy :

I was in The Basement.

It's underneath The House.

Future Boy :

....Yeah.

Captain Galaxy :

Did Irene send you,

or is she lurking somewhere outside?

Future Boy :

No, no, no, I came alone.

She's worried about you, though.

She told me about the hearing tomorrow.

I guess this is the summons.

Captain Galaxy :

You know, a lot of people thought 

Einstein was crazy,

but they didn't try to lock him up.

Future Boy :

Listen, Moe, I KNOW You're Not Crazy,

but why don't you just meet with this Dr. Sandler guy so he knows it, too?

Captain Galaxy :

I don't need to meet a Doctor.

All I need is another 24 hours.

Future Boy :

Why do you keep saying that?

Don't you understand 

I'm here to help you?

Sooner or later you're gonna 

have to face this thing.

Time is NOT going to stand still.

Captain Galaxy :

I want to show you something.

When I was young, my, uh, 

passion was trains.

I couldn't get enough of them.

I even memorized their timetables.

Future Boy :

I did the same thing.

Captain Galaxy :

And whenever anything would go bad,

I would just imagine that 

I could just jump on A Train

and go anywhere I wanted to, 

to any time I wanted to.

But now I've got something 

better than A Train.

I've got a Time-o-nometer.

Future Boy :

What is it?

Captain Galaxy :

It's A Time Machine.

The Observer :

You sure it doesn't make cappuccino?

Captain Galaxy :

When I first started 

playing Captain Galaxy,

I became fascinated with 

the thought of actually 

being able to travel in time,

and I began to read 

everything I could about it.

Heisenberg's Theory of Indeterminacy,

Planck's Hypothesis of Discreet Units,

Einstein's Theory of Relativity.

Future Boy :

Yeah, but when you say "Time Machine",

you mean a time machine like, 

like on Your Show, right?

Captain Galaxy :

The Show? The Show?

No, no, no.

That's Fantasy. This is REAL.

Look -- Time is like A Piece of String.

One End of The String is Birth,

The Other is Death.

You put them together,

and Your LIFE, is A LOOP.

The Observer :

Sam, that's YOUR Theory (!!!!)

Captain Galaxy :

If I can travel fast enough 

ALONG The Loop,

I will eventually end up back

at The Beginning of MY Life.

The Observer :

He's ALMOST got it..!!

Future Boy :

Uh, well, let me ask you,

What Would Happen, 

if, uh, you would 

BALL The String, 

right, and then 

Each Day of Your Life

would touch 

ANOTHER Day.

And then you could travel

from one place on The String

to another, thus enabling

you to move back and forth

within Your Own Lifetime, maybe.

Captain Galaxy :

That's it. That's it.

Then I could actually...

Future Boy :

Quantum Leap?

Captain Galaxy :

Quantum Leap.

I Like that.

I Like that a lot.

Captain Galaxy :

Well, I see that we're 

just about out of time.

But before we sign off today, 

I'd like to make an announcement.

Captain Galaxy 

is going away 

for a while.

He's going back to see 

if he can find something

he lost a long time ago.

But before we sign off, 

we have time for one last letter.

The Observer :

How come you're not out there?

Future Boy :

Oh, I figured that he deserved 

to answer the last letter by himself.

I guess I was here to 

get them together, huh?

The Observer :

Yeah, well, Ziggy had 

a sloppy floppy on this one.

But it all worked out, right, didn't it?

Future Boy :

What Happens to him?

The Observer :

Well, he goes to live with Irene 

and spends the rest of his life

entertaining the kids in the neighborhood 

with Tales of The Future.

Captain Galaxy :

Today's letter is from 

little Sam Beckett 

in Elk Ridge, Indiana.

Sam writes:

"Dear Captain Galaxy,

Could you please explain Your Theory of Time Travel to Us?"

Well, Sam, our lifetimes 

are like A Piece of String.

But if you roll the string up into A Ball,

ALL The Days of Your Life...