This "flashforward" results in countless deaths and accidents involving vehicles, aircraft, and any other device needing human control at the time of the experiment.

Lloyd Simcoe, a 45-year-old Canadian particle physicist, oversees a run of the Large Hadron Collider.

Citing the absence of any human awareness during that time, this is interpreted as evidence of the observer effect in quantum theory.

Some people, including Theo's brother Dimitrios, commit suicide after becoming depressed by visions of their own dismal futures.

With the quark star remnant of supernova 1987A randomly emitting neutrinos when it experiences a starquake, an early warning system is set up on a satellite to ascertain the time of the next possible flashforward.

By this time, Theo has evaded his murderer, Lloyd has broken up with Michiko and Jake is happily married to a woman named Carly Tompkins as predicted by the flashforward.

Lloyd becomes one of the few people to experience another flashforward and sees himself travelling through the galaxy billions of years in the future, using an artificial body supplied by immortality researchers.

The adaptation also changes the blackout time from under two minutes to two minutes and seventeen seconds, as well as the flashforward moving consciousness six months forward, not twenty-one years; time progresses normally during the event, and security cameras capture footage of people blacked out for the full-time period.