I just finished watching this movie and really enjoyed it. I'm no expert in quantum or theoretical physics, so I may get some of this stuff wrong. (Though I'm mainly just going by what I got from the film.)
I believe the movie implies that yes, "95ers" are born atop/near/in some kind of tear in the fabric of space/time that is located on Highway 95. I'm also thinking the movie implies that it could be or likely is the result of past time travel experiments (I'm getting this from when Horatio talks about how there must have been several other time machines in the past).
I saw the the "explosions" across the map as little paradoxes stemming from the center of the event (the time machine under the garage off Highway 95 and all the past time travel experiments. Remember, Sally said she found verifiable events dating back to at least a couple centuries). The wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey stuff, after spiraling out from the source, messed with the natural laws of physics in these certain areas.
To my understanding, Sally (and, in effect, 95ers) has the ability to go back 9 seconds in time, which, given that ability, essentially means she could basically foresee a likely infinite number of probabilities. So I guess you could look at that one as a little of both.
As far as the salt with the office, think back to when Horatio set up the experiment at the restaurant. He theorized that when an alternate timeline branched off (or something to that effect), there would be trace amounts of what would have been. In this case it was broken plates. In the FBI boss' office, it was the grains of salt. That's why they showed him working so intently to clean off his desk before asking Sally in so he could confirm that she had, in fact, gone back and kept him from spilling the salt across the table (though a couple grains still remained as what would have been). This is not like the root beer cap at the museum, which was simply one of the areas hit in the explosion. And I think it simply ties back into the fact that Horatio was shot out of the cannon, and the explosions spread out across the seaboard (and Horatio just happened to have that root beer cap in his lab coat or something and it was carried to the museum during the explosion.) I think this was to confirm that, yes, these peculiarities are tied to a central event, i.e., being shot out of a cannon under a garage off Highway 95.
It was also pretty explicitly stated that Horatio did not die, that he was sent to the future and that Sally would likely see him again. Remember also near the final scene when she says "Ok, now let's go get your father." That's Horatio she's talking about, and we get further confirmation that the 95er we'd been watching the whole movie trying to intercept her timeline is actually her son, who we see about to be born on Highway 95 near the end of the movie as well.
I think those were your major questions. I'm going to take a break and see about coming back to try to provide an answer for the remaining few.
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11 years ago
wes-r-wade,
You just made my day. And... you're right. Just the tip of the iceberg of the 95ers universe, but you nailed it! :)
take care,
Tom Durham (writer/director of 95ers)
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MisterMessrs
11 years ago
Thanks Tom, and thank you very much for making such an excellent film. Anything time travel/alternative universes has always fascinated me and I seek out films like this all the time. Unfortunately, I feel this is a genre that either doesn't get paid enough attention to (explored often enough) or the films that do tackle it I am sometimes disappointed with. Not the case here. You and your team (writers, actors, producers, etc.; everyone involved in this project) did an excellent job and I'd love to see a sequel. Or two.
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