12 Monkeys > Admittedly, no real effort is put into explaining how the time machine actually works, other than Gilliam’s signature steampunk wires and bellows.

12 Monkeys > Admittedly, no real effort is put into explaining how the time machine actually works, other than Gilliam’s signature steampunk wires and bellows. > Science Score: 9 Primer > As for the science, the basic idea is that Aaron and Abe are trying to build a device to counter the effects of gravity by creating a room-temperature superconductor (a hot topic in physics this year, albeit a controversial one) that exploits the Meissner effect to remove the magnetic field inside a plain gray box large enough to fit one person. > The limitation that you can’t travel to times earlier than you turned the machine on is actually very realistic—closed timelike curves in relativity would have exactly that feature. > Science Score: 3 I don't understand this reviewer