In last night’s Fringe , Walter’s angst over pulling Peter out of the parallel universe compounded when he met a MIT time-travel researcher (Peter Weller of RoboCop ), who, in an effort to change his dead fiance’s past, sucked the biological energy out of a train car of people. Despite Walter’s appeals (“It’s not our place to adjust the universe”), the time traveler reunites with his fiance and apparently dies, eliminating any future contact with Walter and Co. and basically rendering the entire episode useless. But did the throw-away plot lend itself to equivalently disposable science? Read on for a look at the relative plausibility of Walter’s ramblings in White Tulip .
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The Mad Science of Fringe: Time-Traveling Secrets Exposed!
