I remember a scene like this from the late 90's series Seven Days where using technology from Roswell the NSA was able to send one person back in time seven days to avert major political disasters. In one of the early episodes the star thought he landed in the Battle of Bull Run and thought the machine somehow had a power surge and sent him too far back in time after he got knocked down by an explosion. It turned out he had landed in the middle of a re-enactment. :)

(This series also had an ironic episode that featured an airplane attack on the late WTC a few years before 9/11; an all domestic plot).

I liked that show

I remember that episode I think it was called "The Gettysburg Virus".

Freefall is the technically correct term... Microgravity is in common use, but really only is correct on the fringe of a gravity well...

Microgravity is a term commonly used by scientists and engineers for experiments on manned spacecraft because something (or someone) is always moving around and causing small accelerations to any experiments attached to the spacecraft.

Yes, but those are transient accelerations, not gravity...

They are indeed transient, but as Einstein demonstrated in his general theory of relativity, acceleration and gravity are two names for the same thing. Acceleration, gravity, and warped space-time are three different ways of looking at the same phenomina. They are mathematically and physically equivalent.

Locally, yes... There is the issue that acceleration causes your reference frame to constantly shift compared to the reference frames of other objects...

Freefall is used to describe the conditions on orbital missions because at the altitude of the ISS, static objects are at around 0.8G. The ISS and the astronauts are described as being in freefall, because that is what they are doing, falling, albeit with style. They've taken the advice from the late Douglas Adams about flying, they've thrown themselves at the earth and missed.

Microgravity is used to describe a natural gravity well that is weaker than the Earth. The surface of the Moon would be considered microgravity (about 0.16G).

"Zero gravity" (more accurately described as extreme microgravity) would describe the conditions when drifting through interplanetary or interstellar space, where no gravity well is exerting more than around 0.01G on objects there. In this state, the strongest gravity well is likely the one caused by the mass of your ship, and since you are inside it, the attraction from all sides balance out, and your own personal gravity field may be the strongest force in the immediate area. It might end up being a little annoying, constantly misplacing your $10,000 space pen because it keeps being attracted to your shoulder blades when you turn around.

Now, for a modern witch, who does not have full-fledged geek level of scientific trivia, all three terms may be considered synonymous, with the exception that 'free fall' could also mean plummeting straight down through the air to a sticky end when the earth breaks your fall, among other things.

O-o! This keeps getting more and more interesting.

OH god, what a twist XD She was in the right year....wonder how the future will be.

I laughed. Nicely executed twist there.

God damn it. I knew that would happen.

Hey it could have been worse. She could have landed earlier in the middle of a ren fair....

I have always wondered if you farted in microgravity, would your farts actually provide thrust? (if only a little bit?)
Jim Dawson has a pair of books on teh subject, Who cut the Cheese, and Blame it on the dog. very funny stuff.

Lol! Reinactors

HAHA, wow! Poor girl.

Steve Gallacci's art is as marvelous as your own. ^_^