(How exactly these things are accomplished is never explained.) Therefore, jumping from one part of the string to another would allow someone to travel back and forth within their own lifetime, thus making a "quantum leap" between each time period. Next, by balling the loop together, the days in one's life would touch one another out of sequence. If one were to tie the ends of the string together, their life becomes a loop. A person's life is like a length of string one end represents birth, the other represents death. Sam's theory of time travel, developed with Professor LoNigro, is based on an expanding, but finite, universe. Al stays married to Beth and they have four daughters. He tells her to wait for Al, who is alive and will eventually come home. He learns he can control his leaps and goes back to Beth, Al's first wife. The final episode has Sam leaping back to the date of his birth and he is himself. Whomever he leaps into goes to the Waiting Room, in Sam's own time, where he or she is kept by the project staff until he or she gets back when Sam leaps into the next person. he isn't leaping into other people's bodies), there is an aura around him, which makes others, except for the ones listed earlier, see Sam as the one he has leaped into. While Sam actually physically travels in time (i.e. Only Sam could see or hear Al, although later it appeared that also animals, small children, the "mentally absent", and people near death could see Al and Sam. Luckily, Al, the project observer from his own time, appeared, in the form of a Hologram to Sam. He awoke in the past, suffering from partial amnesia and facing a mirror image that was not his own. Sam leaping for the first time in the Project Accelerator After creating Ziggy and the Imaging Chamber, under pressure to prove his theories or lose funding Sam stepped into the Project Accelerator and vanished. He led a group of scientists into the New Mexico desert to develop a top secret project known as the Quantum Leap. Sam developed the Project Quantum Leap based on his String Theory with Al. He never saw Donna again but during one of his leaps, he changed history so that Donna actually became his wife. Donna and Sam were engaged, but she left him at the altar. The guilt of his absence during his family's time of need would stay with Sam for years.Īs a young adult, Sam was in the Starbright Project, where he met Al, Gooshie, and Donna Eleese. While Sam was in college, his father, John Samuel Beckett, died of a heart attack in 1974, mostly because of his cigarette smoking. Sam also played the piano in a concert at Carnegie Hall when he was 19. He obtained seven doctoral degrees: Music, Medicine, Quantum Physics, Archaeology, Ancient Languages, Chemistry, and Astronomy, but not psychiatry or law. He stayed in MIT for two years (finishing four year's worth of studies) and then went to different colleges. There he developed the String Theory of time travel with his mentor, Professor LoNigro. Katie also ran away with an alcoholic named Chuck and married him.Īfter Sam graduated from high school at the age of 16 in the spring of 1970, he went to MIT as his brother had once advised him to do. As a child, he had two cats, named Donner and Blitzen, but never had a dog.ĭuring Sam's teenager years, his brother, Tom was killed in the Vietnam war on April 8, 1970. Sam was a child prodigy, as he learned to read at the age of 2, do advanced calculus in his head at the age of 5, and beat a computer at chess at the age of 10. He also had a younger sister, Katie Beckett, and an older brother named Tom Beckett. His mother was Thelma Louise Beckett and his father was John Samuel Beckett, a dairy farmer. Sam was born at 12:30 pm EST on Augin Elk Ridge, Indiana. For this, Time magazine called him "the next Einstein". He has won a Nobel Prize in an unspecified field, but probably for physics. He knows four dead languages, including Egyptian hieroglyphics. Sam speaks 7 modern languages including English, Spanish, French, Russian, German, and Japanese, but not Italian or Hebrew. Sam also plays the piano and guitar, is a good dancer, sings baritone, and his favorite song is John Lennon's "Imagine". Sam also knows several kinds of martial arts such as Judo, Karate, Muay Thai, and Taekwondo, and has been afraid of heights since he was 9 years old. Sam has a photographic memory, an IQ of 267, likes dry or light beer, and microwave popcorn. He soon found himself trapped in the past, leaping into other peoples' bodies, putting "right what once went wrong". Under pressure to prove his theories or lose funding, he stepped into the unfinished project accelerator and vanished. Samuel "Sam" Beckett invented a theory about time traveling and led a group of scientists to the desert to develop a top-secret project: Quantum Leap.
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