Movies

"Absent-Minded Professor, The" (61), "Son of Flubber" ('63), "Flubber" ('97)

"Contact" (1997)

"Invisible Maniac, The" ('90)

A summer school physics teacher at a high school perfects an invisible-inducing drug and goes on a rampage.

"Nutty Professor,The" ('63), ('96) "Nutty Professor II: The Klumps" ('00)

"Quest for Love" ('71UK)

After an experiment goes wrong, a scientist finds himself trapped in an alternate reality

TV

"Simpsons"

The episode where Homer enters 3-d space and punctures the space-time plane with a cone and creates a singularity. He says, " I should have listened to that wheel-chair guy!"

"Third Rock from the Sun"

Professor Dick Solomon (John Lithgow) is an alien acting as a college physics professor.

"Quantum Leap"

Physics genius Quinn Mallory, while working on an anti-gravity machine, accidentally creates a portal to a parallel universe.

Jokes/Limmericks

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     There was a young lady named Bright,
     Who traveled much faster than light.
       She started one day
       In the relative way,
    And returned on the previous night.
    (Arthur H. Reginald Buller?)
  

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  There once was a fencer named Fisk,
  Whose speed was incredibly brisk.
     So fast was his action,
     The Fitzgerald contraction
  Foreshortened his foil to a disk.
  

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