Talk:A Wrinkle in Time (2018 film)/@comment-26423071-20161118094718/@comment-31447615-20180110063808

The concept actually came about some time before L'Engle wrote her novel. It's a physicist concept. The problem is, like unobtanium, it became a sci-fi pop-culture word (after L'Engle's book was written) used to describe inter-dimensional travel. Marvel comics are particularly notorious for using "fantasy" science to make the story interesting. It's become a cheap, quick-and-easy-to-use-word that has mostly lost its original meaning these days.

And for the record, the Tesseract in "Wrinkle In Time" and the one in Marvel are two very different things. The one in Marvel is just a relic that can mess with time, whereas the one in this story is an action, not an object.