The Science of Buckaroo Banzai

[liralen]

A friend from Caltech sent me this from serutan:

"Shortly before the release of 'The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai: Across the 8th Dimension' in 1984, physicist Carl Sneider of U.C. Berkeley wrote a surprisingly interesting essay on the physics behind the movie. Since the essay is not widely available on the web and I could only find it in plain text, I posted a more readable HTML version on my site. Among the more interesting points Sneider makes are that the oscillation overthruster is the result of decades of research instead of the usual laboratory accident, and its development corresponds surprisingly well with the evolution of particle physics from the 1930s to the 80s."

Link to the essay as presented by serutan.

I should probably forward this to my friend who was a medium energy physicist... *laughter*

Comments

[blindgeoff.livejournal.com]

The release of BB on DVD was what finally prompted me to break down and buy a player a few years back... The article is especially amusing in light of the current notions of String Theory!

[liralen.livejournal.com]

It is, isn't it? :-) Fun stuff.