Anachronisms: When Ed is describing to his fellow mechanics what it was like to fall in love with Catherine, he uses the phrase 'mind meld', which wasn't "invented" until Star Trek came along approximately 10 years later.
Anybody think this might have been written as a joke meant to imply that Edward was the true inventor of the phrase? It's small and subtle, but it could've been intended to comically show how he had thoughts that were ahead of his time.
Save Eli Stone
Why not? Didn't he tell them that, when he first saw her, the past, present and future had become all jumbled together for a moment?
When he is talking with Einstein and his friends, he describes a story about a pair of twins. One stays at home and the other goes into space, traveling near the speed of light. When the traveler returns, he is still young while his twin brother is now a great-grandfather. On another thread, someone pointed out that this is the plot of "Time for the Stars", a novel by Robert Heinlein, published in 1956, a year after (the real) Einstein passed away.
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.
So is a lot.
— Albert Einstein
Observations are relative to the observer.---
— Albert Einstein