It's not often that the subjective, opinionated world of cultural criticism and the objective, fact-based world of hard science come together, let alone form a common consensus. But in January of 2008, one of those rare moments occurred: a special screening of the Hayden Christensen vehicle Jumper, about a young man who discovers he has the power to teleport through space, was arranged for physics professors and their students at the Massachussets Institute of Technology. These brilliant men and women, heirs to the tradition of Newton, Bohr and Einstein, agreed with movie critics the world over: Jumper has got a lot of problems.
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