How upptäcker gruppen att det saknas glida kostar dem 29 år?

I-universum

Perioden på 29,7 år förutspåddes antagligen i den (verkliga) EPR-paradoxen som föreslagits av Albert Einstein, den fader till temporal fysik.

Även om det inte uttryckligen anges i avsnittet, verkar det mycket troligt att Quinn använde samma algoritmer när man utarbetar hur man bygger timernenheten. Detta skulle också förklara hur timern vet hur länge de måste spendera på varje värld innan de kan öppna en annan portal:

DIANA: You're stuck here for 29 years.

MAGGIE: How did you know that?

DIANA: That period is one of the predicted algorithms in the EPR paradox.

REMBRANDT: Whatever. It's been one of the rules since the 'get-go.'

Sliders: The Unstuck Man

Out-of-universum

Varför den här perioden valdes (utanför universum) var det helt enkelt ett skrivbeslut som skapar en känsla av brådskande:

How come a window can be “minutes on some worlds and months on others” – why not years, or even 29 years; if the next window is 29.7 years (if they miss their slide), why are their stays limited to minutes or months, and not years (besides the obvious TV complications this would present to the series)?

"I could give you a pseudo science answer, but the real reason is whatever serves a given story. Besides which, it’s fun to have them one place for an hour in one story and a few days in another, it shakes up the mix." - MARC SCOTT ZICREE Interview: SLIDERS CYBERCON ’98

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What is the significance of the 29.7 years?

"That’s just one of those silly rules that, you know, you have to come up with for these things and it sounded better than 30. Because 29.7 years, we used to all go around… I got a lot of flack from that from other people. I mean, 29.7… in fact, it really bothered Bob Weiss. He kept insisting it’s gotta be a nice, round figure. I said, I am not budging on this! It’s 29.7!" [Laughter] - TRACY TORMÉ Interview – DRAGONCON 1999