Does time pass differently at PQL than it does for Sam?
We’ve never seen an indication that it does. At most, there is a time difference resulting from, say, Sam leaping into Smallville at 9am while back at the Project it’s 11:30pm…the kind of difference one would get when trying to place a long-distance call to someone in another time zone. There is no indication that an hour’s length for Sam is not the same as an hour’s length for the PQL staff. [Kwong] To state it more specifically, once Sam leaps in and PQL locates him, his “clock” and the Project’s “clock” become locked in synch. As in the Smallville example above, if Al steps into the Chamber at 11:45pm (PQL time), he will only be able to contact Sam at 9:15am (Smallville time). Note that the Chamber becomes useless unless there is a leaper to focus on. [Kwong] 16.When is Al’s “present”? Or rather, in what year did Sam start leaping? Through various little hints and clues, the date of Sam’s first leap has been determined to be 1995 (seven years after our present, since Quantum Leap
