Ant-Man) emerges from the quantum realm five years after Infinity War-which to him felt like five hours-he suggests that the quantum realm could be the key to restoring all the life that was lost. The genius of Endgame is that it’s in on the joke. For another, it’s notorious for not making sense most time-travel movies unravel upon the slightest inspection, revealing massive inconsistencies, and the closer they come to plausibility, the more inscrutable they seem. For one thing, it’s basic: We’ve seen it so often before. The question was what mechanism the moviemakers would use to explain away the Snapture without invalidating the events of the previous movie. Endgame was always bound to be about undoing that apocalypse. At the end of Avengers: Infinity War, Thanos assembled all six Infinity Stones and snapped his fingers, eliminating half of all life in the universe (and putting any remaining Mets fans out of their misery). ![]() Although the record-breaking box office earner cleverly positions itself as a more scientifically accurate alternative to the typical time-travel movie, an expert in quantum computing confirms that its story makes the same sort of logical leaps.īefore we summon our scientist, a brief recap. But Endgame’s invocation of quantum mechanics seems ripe for peer review. Nor can we contact Max Planck, the creator of quantum theory, without inventing a time-travel machine of our own. “There’s nothing in my work that is generally known as the ‘Deutsch Proposition,’” Deutsch says.īeyond disavowing the Deutsch Proposition, Deutsch declines to comment on the movie’s treatment of time travel, perhaps not wanting to Marshall McLuhan–in– Annie-Hall a fellow scientist as esteemed as Stark. The Planck part of the line, at least, does refer to real science as Symmetry Magazine put it in 2016, “The Planck scale is the universal limit, beyond which the currently known laws of physics break.” The rest, regrettably but perhaps predictably, is technobabble, as Deutsch himself concedes. Of course, comic books are not known for their scientific accuracy, and neither are the blockbusters they’re based on. ![]() “Since I now exist in the canonical Marvel universe, I have now officially become a comic book character.” “I’m honored to have been mentioned by Tony Stark,” says quantum computing pioneer David Deutsch, a visiting professor of physics at the Centre for Quantum Computation at Oxford University’s Clarendon Laboratory, and the author of The Fabric of Reality and The Beginning of Infinity. But at least one viewer found the line to his liking. Most moviegoers must have greeted that delivery like Steve Rogers, Scott Lang, and Natasha Romanoff did: with blank stares and silence. The next time someone compiles the most memorable Tony Stark quotes from the Marvel Cinematic Universe, this mouthful from Avengers: Endgame about the plausibility of time travel probably won’t make the list: “Quantum fluctuation messes with the Planck scale, which then triggers the Deutsch Proposition. ![]() But here’s the question you have to ask yourself: Did Future Us travel to the past and force us to publish this piece so that we’d have it for this week in 2020? Or did Past Us travel to the future and see how hard up for content we’d be in July of this very odd year? You know what, you’re right-we should stop asking questions. The Ringer is celebrating time travel this week, so we decided to resurface this piece, published soon after the 2019 release of Avengers: Endgame.
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