November 5th, 1955 is the day Doc came up with the idea for the flux capacitor (after falling off his toilet seat & bumping his head), making time travel a possibility!

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Flickr user “snotboogie” posted pictures of his wedding cake, which is modeled after the town square from the Back To The Future movies. Complete with tiny delicious DeLorean.

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SCIENCE BUZZ: Thanks to J.J. Abrams and his slew of time-travel related plot devices in film and on TV — basically LOST and Star Trek — I've been thinking a lot about time travel and like I usually do, took to Google to learn some basics. OK I've just read all those things and now I'm even more confused than I was before…And I think my brain is leaking.

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The Best Links:

1. “But time travel isn’t magic; it may or may not be allowed by the laws of physics — we don’t know them well enough to be sure — but we do know enough to say that if time travel were possible, certain rules would have to be obeyed.”
2. A recap of the LOST series finale that dealt with some seriously confusing time travel.
3. “One of the most famous arguments against time travel was the problem of temporal paradoxes. What happens if you kill one of your ancestors? If someone else did it, then the line that bore you would cease to exist and so would you. But if you did it to yourself, you would cease to exist thus undoing your murder which would bring you back into existence where you would travel back in time to kill your ancestor, etc. A paradox.”
4. Time Travel for Beginners (um, not really.)
5. HowStuffWorks “How Time Travel Will Work”
6. This is the epic LOST Timeloop theory. Don’t read this unless you want your brain to explode.
7. Temporal Anomalies in Back to the Future
8. Back to the Future Time Travel Chronology
9. “Although time travel has been a common plot device in fiction since the 19th century, and one-way travel into the future is arguably possible given the phenomenon of time dilation based on velocity in the theory of special relativity (exemplified by the twin paradox) as well as gravitational time dilation in the theory of general relativity, it is currently unknown whether the laws of physics would allow backwards time travel.”
10. No Such Thing as a Stupid Question: More on the Lost Finale

This morning's mashup comes to you via Bits & Pieces . It poses the question: “What would have happened if Doc had miscalculated when traveling back to the future in the last movie?” The answer is kind of devastating.

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STYLE BUZZ: The fictional shoe worn by Marty McFly in Back to the Future is being released by Nike sometime in July. It seems someone finally told Nike that they already make this shoe and that all they need to do is give the Kobe Bryant-backed Hyperdunk a different paint job. Maybe we really are living in the future (despite the lack of flying cars, and the coveted hoverboard.)

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The Best Links:

1. Every Appearance of a Nike Shoe in the Movie
2. The Amazing Musical Plea to Nike to Make the Shoe
3. The McFly 2015 Project
4. “Flywire Technology”
5. It May Have Been the Original Inspiration for the Hyperdunk
6. Probably Not Actually This Cool
7. A Handful of Pictures
8. Kobe Promoted the Hyperdunk in This Video Hoax
9. The Hyperdunk Was Designed With the Olympics in Mind