Update 2010-10-25: Today is the 25th anniversary of Marty McFly’s going forward to the past so that he could get Back to the Future. And tomorrow, a special edition of trilogy is going to be rereleased on Blu-ray. Support Overthinking … Continued
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The Overthinkers wrap up Back To The Future week on OverthinkingIt.com with the science of time travel, suspension of disbelief, and what a Jigga-Watt is anyway.
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![Huey Lewis? Where we're going we don't need Huey Lewis! [BTTF Week]](https://www.overthinkingit.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/hln-articleimg.jpg)
Over the past week, the Overthinking It team has subjected the Back to the Future trilogy to a level of scrutiny it definitely deserves, pointing out a wide variety of paradoxes, inconsistencies, and unanswered questions regarding the series. Because these … Continued
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Fiction is full of miracles caused by hitting people on the head. Reality is still catching up.
![The Science of Back To The Future [BTTF Week]](https://www.overthinkingit.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/bttf_math_carousel.jpg)
A delightful romp through the worlds of time travel debunking, high school geometry, and the Metric System.
![How Time Travel Works (and doesn't) in Back To The Future [BTTF Week]](https://www.overthinkingit.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/silver-articleimage.jpg)
Three movies, four theories of time travel.
!["You built a time machine out of a DeLorean?" [BTTF Week]](https://www.overthinkingit.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/gold-delorean-articleimg.jpg)
“You built a time machine… out of a DeLorean?” Okay, now stop. If it wasn’t for Back to the Future, would the word DeLorean mean anything to you?
![Marty McFly Did Not Invent Rock 'n' Roll [BTTF Week]](https://www.overthinkingit.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/marty.jpg)
Nor did he give the song “Johnny B. Goode” to Chuck Berry. Let’s dispel this myth once and for all.
![Marty McFly's Grim Future [BTTF Week]](https://www.overthinkingit.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/grimfuture-articleimage2.jpg)
When Part 3 ends, the nightmare begins.
![The Paradox of Marty's Headless Brother [BTTF Week]](https://www.overthinkingit.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/nohead-articleimg.jpg)
Back to the Future makes no sense… unless you imagine an alternate history where headless mutants run free.