Trivia / The Outer Limits 1995 S 4 E 4 In Another Life

• The prefix 'eigen' (German: 'proper') is prominent in the mathematics of quantum mechanics, notably in 'eigenfunctions', 'eigenvector', and 'eigenvalues'. (For example, whenever possible a wave function is more simply expressed as a weighted sum of eigenfunctions.) Notional 'universal' wave functions might differ by a phase factor unobservable in-universe but differing between them, leading to the possible joke that everyone who founded Eigenphase, Inc. thought their universe the proper one. Episode writer Naren Shankar has at least one degree in applied physics.