Have you seen the movie Source Code? Are you bothered by the apparent paradox at the end of the film? So was physicist Jim Kakalios. In a fun (and, incidentally, spoiler-riffic) guest post at the Cosmic Variance blog, Kakalios fan-wanks the ending of Source Code as only a physicist could.
One physicist's theories about the end of "Source Code"
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