Quantum Plot Holes

Ever watch a film or a TV show and think, "Uhm...what happened to...?" or "How did they get out of that locked room?"?

Yeah...

Well, I was rewatching Quantum Leap and had this thought as Sam saved the girl from suicide:

If energy is neither created nor destroyed, then saving the girl from suicide means that something else suddenly died, right?

It may not be that literal- I mean, it might just be that there was suddenly a hole that developed in the space-time continuum from that moment on.

So, actually, Sam, being the "good guy" is actually traveling through time practicing acts of cronyism and nepotism (yeah, he saved his bro, remember?) at the expense of another's life.

Does that make him the "good guy"?

<eye brow>

You'd think that a person with 6 doctorates - and an MD would realize this...so, does that mean that it's all done on purpose?

Just a different spin on the whole idea.  And this is why traveling to the past is a problem, but traveling to the future isn't...because traveling to "the past" creates a paradox in the space-time continuum because things have already happened- it's "set".  But traveling to the future...well, that can only be predicted so there's no paradox.

But, of course, traveling to the future is a one-way journey.

And that is your 4th dimensional physics lesson for the day.