CONCEIVING THE TBI
We had to create a time machine, and in one way that’s a very exciting thing; in another, it’s quite a scary thing because there’ve been some less than successful time machines in the past. The idea we focused on was the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland. So we thought of an underground tunnel which is incredibly long and allows objects to reach very high velocities. Joe [Barton, writer] had always set it in the Alps, and we liked the idea that it was in a vast cavern beneath the mountain.
Interestingly there is, in Texas, an abandoned collider [the Superconducting Super what it looks like.” So our TIme Break Initiative building was modelled on a lot of the pictures from that abandoned collider in America.
