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| Project
Quantum Leap is a time-travel project created by Sam Beckett based on
the String
Theory. Wanting to prove his theories, he led a group of
scientists into the desert near Stallion's Gate, New Mexico, where they
built the project complex. Project Quantum Leap therefore refers both
to Sam's project and theories and to the actual complex. During a committee hearing to weigh the value of P.Q.L. it is stated that the project's total initial funding was 43 billion dollars, with an additional running total of 2.4 billion dollars in funding needed each year. |
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| The Control Room
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| Ziggy
& The Control Room Ziggy is the super hybrid computer that runs Project Quantum Leap. It was built by Samuel Beckett and Gooshie, being one of the first creations in the Project Quantum Leap. Ziggy has a sense of humor, which many computers don't have. Sam himself said: "The only thing separating Ziggy from a normal calculating machine is his ego." In fact, he later expanded on this in the episode The Leap Back. In this episode, after Ziggy was being particularly stubborn, Sam lamented about it by saying "Why did I have to give him Barbra Streisand's ego?" Ziggy has lots of information of the past and gives information to Al to be given to Sam. Ziggy can't express guilt, being a computer. Al uses the Handlink to keep contact with Ziggy while he is in the Imaging Chamber. Ziggy once said that she was capable of doing "a trillion floating-point calculations at once," and "has over 1,000,000 GB of memory" (about 1,000 terabytes of memory) thus demonstrating part of his immense abilities, and the aforementioned large ego. Sam and Al consistently refer to Ziggy as male, although when the computer's voice is finally heard, it is distinctly female. Although no explanation for this is given in the series, in the novels it is said that Ziggy was originally male, and that Tina changed the voice to a female when she was programming it. Ziggy is voiced by series co-creator and executive producer Deborah Pratt, who also voiced the saga-sell intros beginning in season two which introduced the leap into the epsisode Another Mother. |
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| Trivia Unlike Lothos, who seems to have total control of his leaper's leaps, and can also leap several persons at a time, Ziggy reportedly has no control of Sam's leaps. When Al in 1999 was briefly blinked out of existence after his younger Lt. "Bingo" counterpart self was wrongfully convicted and sentenced to die in the gas chamber in the death of Marci Riker when Sam leaped into Al in 1957 in the episode A Leap For Lisa, Ziggy's name changed to "Alpha" in the altered 1999 timeline. Ziggy is voiced by Deborah Pratt. Ziggy is also mentioned in almost every episode. The character appears in the 2009 fan film Quantum Leap: A Leap to Di For. |
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In the Control Room scene
when Sam leaps back to save
Al, you see two men
holding devices. The
shadowy figure in the foreground on left holds Magnalink II.
The man in
the orange jacket on the right holds Magnalink I, with a strap
assisting around his neck. When Donna
fires the accelerator, beams of
light transfer energy between Ziggy
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Magnalink props on our Props
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| The
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| The Imaging Chamber The Imaging Chamber is a big chamber in the Project Quantum Leap installations. When someone goes into that chamber, they can see the Leaper and their surroundings in a holographic image, and the Leaper sees them also as a holographic image. Al kept contact with Sam through this chamber. The Imaging Chamber is a huge, cavern-like chamber with only one door, which leads to the Control Room. The Imaging Chamber door is opened and closed with the Handlink. The chamber has a radium accelerator ring surrounding it, which is probably used to send the holographic image of the Observer back in time. |
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| Functioning The Imaging Chamber has two different but complementary functions. The first function is to show a hologram of the Observer to the Leaper, to enable the communication from the Observer to the Leaper. In order to accomplish this, the chamber scans constantly in real-time the Observer inside it, capturing both their image and sounds. Then, the chamber sends a neurological hologram of the Observer through time to the moment the Leaper is in. This hologram is created by a subatomic agitation of carbon quarks tuned to the mesons of the Leaper's optic and otic neurons (as described in Genesis). That is, only the Leaper can actually sense (see and listen) the hologram that is being sent through time. The hologram can be set to appear in different spots around the Leaper, including places the Leaper is not looking at, or locations that are beyond the Leaper's viewing range, though the maximum distance from the Leaper that the hologram can appear in has not been stated. There are some other beings that can tune to the hologram and thus sense it, including all animals, small children, the "mentally absent", people near death, people with heightened senses, and people with brainwave patterns similar to the Leaper's. Special machinery can also detect the hologram. The hologram can move around mimicking the movements of the Observer in the Imaging Chamber. It can also be moved in specific ways by commanding Ziggy to do it; these include adjusting the height that the hologram appears at, "jumping" to other spots or near certain people, and moving in synch with some moving object. This hologram will show the Observer and anything in direct contact with their skin: clothes, cigars, the Handlink, etc. People in contact with the Observer's skin will also be shown in this hologram, though only the images, without that person's sounds (though this has been achieved at least once with some modifications to the chamber). The second function is to show a hologram of the surroundings of the Leaper, and the Leaper himself, to the Observer, to enable communication from the Leaper to the Observer. In order to do this, the chamber has to collect info about the Leaper and their surroundings, including images and sounds, and get them through time to the chamber itself. Once this info is in the chamber, a neurological hologram of the Leaper and their surroundings is created inside the chamber, tuned to the Observer's neurons. That is, only the Observer can see and listen the information being brought back from the past. Any other person entering the chamber would just see a big, empty room. This hologram can show things in the Leaper's surroundings that are not necessarily near the Leaper, or within their line of sight or earshot. The maximum distance from the Leaper that the hologram can gather and show info from has not been stated. The hologram can stay still in order to allow the Observer to move around it. The hologram can also be moved around the Observer in order to improve his sense of "being" in the past, or to avoid unnecessary movement for the Observer. When commanded, Ziggy can do the following: adjust the height of the hologram's floor relative to the chamber's floor; move the center of the hologram so that the Observer gets faster to a specific spot or person without the need to physically walk there; and move in synch with a moving object, so that the Observer can track it without the need of running next to it. These two functions have to work together in order to enable a two-way communication between the Observer and the Leaper. Thus, the Observer's and the Leaper's brainwave patterns have to be in-synch and pre-configured into Ziggy so that both holographic projections will work correctly. The Imaging Chamber also has a lockdown feature in case of a catastrophic collapse of the radium accelerator ring surrounding it. If Ziggy detects this, she will seal the chamber's only door, which will not open until the radiation half-life of the radium ring has expired (which is 1,600 years). There are two cases that can be mistaken by Ziggy with a collapse: a lightning strike hitting the Leaper just as he is leaping, and a nuclear explosion on the same spot as the Leaper. There are two safeguards in order to reopen the door in these cases: an override code that can be punched into the Handlink, and a secret backdoor code that can be given to Ziggy directly, which is only known by Sam Beckett. |
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who have been in the Imaging Chamber Original series: Al Sam Gooshie Katie McBain (With Al) Verbena Beeks (With Al) Revival series: Addison Augustine Jenn Chou Ian Wright Herbert Magic Williams Trivia There was enough air in the Imaging Chamber of the original series to sustain a single person for 6 months. |
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| The Accelerator Chamber The Project Accelerator is the place in Project Quantum Leap, where someone leaps. Sam went into it too early, and that's why his experiment went a little... Ca-ca, as Al said. In The Leap Back, Sam used the accelerator again to be replaced with Al and to save his life. He had to sacrifice his freedom but he saved Al. In A Leap For Lisa, the young Al Calavicci at the Waiting Room was catapulted back into himself, but to a time a little earlier than the time Sam had leaped into him. This was done in order to fix a mistake in the past, which was impossible to fix by Sam at the time. Appearances Genesis The Leap Back A Leap For Lisa (Mentioned Only) |
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Waiting Room The Waiting Room is a room with only one table and a door out. It's the place where Leapees are while Sam is correcting a mistake in their lives. The Leapees are also questioned in this room, to find more information that can be given to Sam by Al; however, if the Leapee isn't in the Waiting Room, Sam can't leap. During the episode Killin' Time, the Leapee, Leon Randolph Stiles, who was a murderer, escaped the Waiting Room by threatening Al and Gooshie with a gun. Al went after Stiles, leaving Gooshie to aid Sam from the Imaging Chamber. Luckily, Al got Leon back and Sam leaped. Appearances A Leap For Lisa Lee Harvey Oswald Killin' Time Dr. Ruth Return of The Evil Leaper Revenge of The Evil Leaper Mirror Image |
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Waiting Room Table The Waiting Room table is located presumably at the center of the Waiting Room. The Leapee's leap onto this table and it is there that they will be questioned on. Appearances A Leap For Lisa Lee Harvey Oswald Killin' Time Dr. Ruth Revenge of The Evil Leaper |
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