What is Project Quantum Leap?
On the show, Project Quantum Leap was a top secret government project created by physicist Dr. Sam Beckett. Based on a string theory of time, the project theorized that a person could travel to any point in his lifetime. Forced to prove his theories or lose funding, Dr. Beckett prematurely initiated the experiment in 1995 and became stuck in the past, leaping back and forth in recent history.