The screening of selections from the film will be followed by a discussion panel on the film and the physics of teleportation, with leading actor Hayden Christensen, director Doug Liman, and MIT Physics Professors Max Tegmark and Edward Farhi. David Rice (Hayden Christensen) always believed he was perfectly ordinary — until he accidentally discovered he possessed a genetic anomaly that is nothing less than extraordinary. David is a Jumper who can teleport himself to the streets of New York and Tokyo, the ruins of Rome, and the Sahara Desert. He can see twenty sunsets in one night, whisk his girlfriend around the world in the blink of an eye, and grab millions of dollars in a matter of minutes. But David’s global odyssey takes a deadly turn when he finds himself relentlessly pursued by a secret organization sworn to kill Jumpers. Forming an uneasy alliance with another Jumper, David becomes a key player in a war that seems to have no end. As these world-changing events unfold, David begins to discover the secrets and mythology behind his incredible ability.
Category:
films/movies
science/engineering
Location:
26-100
Sponsored by:
LSC
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LSC
E-mail: lsc@mit.edu
URL: http://lsc.mit.edu
Phone: 617-253-3791
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